{"id":26473,"date":"2012-02-27T05:06:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T11:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26473"},"modified":"2012-02-26T10:57:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T16:57:24","slug":"consequences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26473","title":{"rendered":"Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged robber<a style=\"color: #1b8be0; font: normal normal normal 15px\/normal 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/Man-Returns-to-Robbery-Scene-to-Buy-Back-Gun-He-Dropped-140294243.html\">\u00a0in custody after trying to rob men, dropping gun<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police said [Cedrick Mitchell, age 39] entered a motel room and asked for pills from the two men inside. When they responded that they didn&#8217;t have any, Mitchell took out his gun and told the men &#8220;everything you got,&#8221; according to the Bradenton Herald.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell dropped his gun when the men began to fight with him, police say. One of the victims sprayed him with pepper spray and Mitchell ran away, authorities said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and then&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He returned to the motel room minutes later and offered the men $40 in exchange for the gun he dropped, the Herald reported . He was pepper-sprayed in the face again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reports that Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom has said that this is an example of what will happen if the &#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; law passes are at this time unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also unknown whether Champlin police chief David Kolb has recounted any stories of breaking into hotel rooms when he was a 10 year old boy, and wondering if a kid might get shot for that today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged robber\u00a0in custody after trying to rob men, dropping gun&#8230; Police said [Cedrick Mitchell, age 39] entered a motel room and asked for pills from the two men inside. When they responded that they didn&#8217;t have any, Mitchell took out his gun and told the men &#8220;everything you got,&#8221; according to the Bradenton Herald. Mitchell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473","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=26473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26477,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473\/revisions\/26477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}