{"id":29684,"date":"2012-08-17T12:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29684"},"modified":"2012-08-17T12:29:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:29:03","slug":"break-from-the-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29684","title":{"rendered":"Break From The Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally, with stories like that of Duluth-area DFL state Rep. Kerry Gauthier – who was caught\u00a0en flagrante Clinton<\/em>\u00a0with a 17 year old<\/a> outside a Duluth rest stop a few weeks ago – I’d say “the double standards astounds me”; the media have been largely, er, keeping their hands off the story.<\/p>\n

There’s a notable exception<\/a>; the Duluth News-Trib<\/em> is not amused at the extreme paucity of information from the cops in re this case, including information they are required by law to release:<\/p>\n

As Stahl reports, the Minnesota State Patrol and Duluth police at first flat-out denied a request by the News Tribune for public information pertaining to the \u201csuspicious activity\u201d at the rest stop. They refused even though Minnesota law clearly requires certain information on calls made to the police for service be made public. That includes the date and time of a call, the agencies involved, the nature of the request for police, and witnesses to the incident. The Minnesota Government Data Practices Act also states that agencies should release \u201ca brief factual reconstruction of events associated with\u201d a police call.<\/p>\n

After the News Tribune informed the agencies what records should be public under state law, some information was released. But only details on the time, date and place of the call were released. All the newspaper \u2014 and the public, by extension \u2014 was told with regard to the reason for the police response was \u201csuspicious activity.\u201d That\u2019s hardly \u201ca brief factual reconstruction.\u201d The State Patrol and the city of Duluth then passed the buck to the other with regard to who should release such a reconstruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Minnesota mainstream media (the News-Trib<\/em> excepted) observes double-standard favoring DFLers; dog sniffs dog. \u00a0As old as our 10,000 lakes. \u00a0Cops – who were happy to blather about, say, Rep. Hackbarth, down to their personal opinions, when\u00a0no personal contact, much less crime, occurred<\/em> – are keeping mum about a favored DFLer.<\/p>\n

Nothing astounding.<\/p>\n

What is\u00a0<\/em>astounding? \u00a0A 56 year old guy at a Swap Meat with a 17 year old apparently does not violate Minnesota’s statutory rape laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally, with stories like that of Duluth-area DFL state Rep. Kerry Gauthier – who was caught\u00a0en flagrante Clinton\u00a0with a 17 year old outside a Duluth rest stop a few weeks ago – I’d say “the double standards astounds me”; the media have been largely, er, keeping their hands off the story. There’s a notable exception; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29684","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=29684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29687,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29684\/revisions\/29687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}