What he meant was \u201cI\u2019m sorry your son attacked me, forcing me to defend myself, which ended his life and landed me in the middle of a horrible and expensive ordeal. I\u2019m sorry his poor choices deprived you of your son. But I\u2019m not sorry I defended myself using the appropriate level of force. I\u2019m not sorry for shooting him because he left me had no choice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, that\u2019s too much for Associated Press to comprehend and even if they did, it doesn\u2019t fit the narrative.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And the narrative is in full force. \u00a0More later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes of Como Park beat me to this point: \u201cI\u2019m sorry for your loss\u201d isn\u2019t the same as apologizing for the shooting; in fact, nothing like it. What he meant was \u201cI\u2019m sorry your son attacked me, forcing me to defend myself, which ended his life and landed me in the middle of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597","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=27597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27598,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597\/revisions\/27598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}