Allegedly

Its crazy to me how reporters misuse the word "allegedly". "The crosses burned on the lawn were an alleged hate-crime." So we're not sure what the intentions of the cross-burners were? We don't know maybe they had their crosses to close to an open flame. Maybe they were chasing Dracula or something, got their torches to close to their crosses, it happens. There was a bit on the local news about a convict who'd shot a cop and then ran away, and they still called him the "alleged" shooter. Umm, people saw him do the shooting. He's the one who's missing, armed and dangerous. If you're not sure he did it I'm not going to call you if I see him. I'm not going to waste my phone minutes--I'm allegedly broke.