{"id":20216,"date":"2011-05-23T04:25:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20216"},"modified":"2011-05-23T04:25:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:25:51","slug":"attention-sports-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20216","title":{"rendered":"Attention, Sports Fans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I ever rule the world, people like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/2011\/05\/23\/1660740\/suspect-arrested-in-attack-on.html\">this&#8230;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tip from a parole officer led to the arrest of one of the suspects in the attack on a San Francisco Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium after the rival teams\u2019 season opener, a brutal beating that prompted an outpouring of support for the victim and outrage in the sports world and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The man detained early Sunday is thought to be the \u201cmain aggressor\u201d&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;who do this to other people&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;in the March 31 beating that left Bryan Stow with brain damage, Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck said at an afternoon news conference at the stadium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;over <em>wearing another team&#8217;s fan gear<\/em>, will, upon conviction, be judicially shot in the face. \u00a0So the alleged offenders should be glad I don&#8217;t rule the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An emotional Beck hailed the work of 20 full-time detectives who he said have pursued 630 leads in the case so far. The police chief choked back tears as he described getting a call at 7 a.m. Sunday from assistant chief Earl Paysinger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously. \u00a0There is nothing in the world that fills me with deeper contempt than people who <em>get violent \u00a0with other people over sports <\/em>(and I&#8217;m talking fans, not the actual sports; boxing or UFC or NHL, which are all about watching people hit each other, aren&#8217;t the same thing). \u00a0In a world absolutely ruled by me, it&#8217;d justify lethal force by others to prevent it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I ever rule the world, people like this&#8230;: A tip from a parole officer led to the arrest of one of the suspects in the attack on a San Francisco Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium after the rival teams\u2019 season opener, a brutal beating that prompted an outpouring of support for the victim and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20219,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions\/20219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}