{"id":37334,"date":"2013-07-17T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37334"},"modified":"2013-07-17T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:18:21","slug":"narrative-unserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37334","title":{"rendered":"Narrative: Unserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man intervenes when a teenage boy was acting illegally in his neighborhood.\u00a0 The boy charges the man.\u00a0 The man shoots in self-defense.\u00a0 The man is acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; the man,\u00a0Roderick Scott, is black, the teenager, Christopher Cervini,\u00a0was white.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;d be why you&#8217;ve never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/rochester.ynn.com\/content\/top_stories\/490926\/jury-finds-roderick-scott-not-guilty\/\">the case<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not guilty: The verdict in the manslaughter trial of Roderick Scott. After more than 19 hours of deliberations over two days, a jury acquitted the Greece man in the shooting death of Christopher Cervini, 17, last April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to say thank you to the people who believed in me, who stood by me,\u201d Scott said following the verdict. \u201cI still have my regrets for the Cervini family; it&#8217;s still an unfortunate situation for them. I am happy that at least this chapter is over.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And both sides in this case in\u00a0suburban Rochester, NY should be thankful that their gawdawful tragedy didn&#8217;t become a stage prop for anyone&#8217;s re-election bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man intervenes when a teenage boy was acting illegally in his neighborhood.\u00a0 The boy charges the man.\u00a0 The man shoots in self-defense.\u00a0 The man is acquitted. Oh, yeah &#8211; the man,\u00a0Roderick Scott, is black, the teenager, Christopher Cervini,\u00a0was white.\u00a0 That&#8217;d be why you&#8217;ve never heard of the case: Not guilty: The verdict in the [&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-37334","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\/37334","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=37334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37335,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37334\/revisions\/37335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}