Alleged beating

有傳媒已拍攝到警務人員拳打腳踢示威者，但很多媒體依然用「涉嫌毆打」（alleged beating），何不直接用「毆打事件」﹖

Alleged解「宣稱的、聲稱的、被斷言的」，《牛津字典》解釋其意思為"said, without proof, to have taken place or to have a specified illegal or undesirable quality"，即是「無充分證據而斷言已經發生某事，或有特定違法或不良品質」。例如，alleged financial misdeeds（涉嫌的財政違規行為）、an alleged bribery case（涉嫌受賄案）。正所謂「有片有真相」，還不算證據充分﹖

Allege也可以用作動詞，意思跟其形容詞alleged一樣，指「（在無充分證據、未證實的情況下）宣稱、指控」。由於allege是書面語，常用句式It is alleged（that）……表達，亦常用被動語態be alleged to do something。例句：It is alleged that a protester was beaten by a group of policemen.（據稱一名示威者被一群警察毆打。）He was alleged to be involved in the crime.（他被指控參與犯罪。）