"Fatality" dulls a plainer reality: that somebody has been killed.
A less-discussed clause carries with it the same obfuscation of meaning: "suicide by cop." The phrase refers to a person who provokes the police's violence to kill themselves. But too often it has been loosely applied to excuse police killings as unavoidable.
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