note how police language has infected even conservancy-involved owl-making-contact-with-a-vehicle incidents
Yes, there is a difference! Moreover both factual situations can be clearly expressed.

What’s at issue with all police language is creating deliberate ambiguity so that other people with less access to the facts can make tendentious arguments about what might have happened.
“Birding experts had realized in recent months that Barry was female.” nyti.ms/37pjtmP

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