Why Don't Journalists Write What They Mean?

[philosoraptor42]

A man shot dead by police in north London was a passenger in a minicab stopped during a planned operation, the police watchdog has said.
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Three shots were fired. A bullet was found lodged in a police radio.
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Two shots were fired by an officer and it is believed that one shot was discharged from an illegal firearm inside the car.
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Another resident David Akinsanya, who was at the scene of the fatal shooting soon after the incident, said a witness told him that a police officer had shouted to the man to stop "a couple of times", but the man had not heeded the warning
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Translation: The guy was being driven around London with an illegal firearm that was loaded. Armed police had a planned operation to aprehend him, suggesting that him being armed was not unexpected. Far from being shot while simply in possession of the firearm, he actually shot at the police officers. In fact, since he was given warnings by the police to stop we might reasonably presume from this that he shot first.

Why are there now massive riots over shooting an armed man who shot an illegal firearm at the police officers trying to apprehend him? I don't get it.