Most likely this. The person in charge at NYT correctly saw this as a progression of Sandman-like incidents where SJW journos play a telephone Twitter game outright lying about the incident, potentially publishing false statements of fact of an incident for which there is clear video evidence proving their lied.
They were told NOT to slip and let their SJWs fanaticism expose them to more lawsuits that would Redpill people with a nice poster child attacked by Leftists as he did everything right and they did everything wrong.
So we get an extremely factual description of the context and the shootings. Actual journalism.
Most likely this. The person in charge at NYT correctly saw this as a progression of Sandman-like incidents where SJW journos play a telephone Twitter game outright lying about the incident, potentially publishing false statements of fact of an incident for which there is clear video evidence proving their lied.
They were told NOT to slip and let their SJWs fanaticism expose them to more lawsuits that would Redpill people with a nice poster child attacked by Leftists as he did everything right and they did everything wrong.
So we get an extremely factual description of the context and the shootings. Actual journalism.