{"id":37671,"date":"2013-08-02T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37671"},"modified":"2013-08-02T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:40:04","slug":"37671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37671","title":{"rendered":"Realities Modified To Fit The Narrative&#8217;s Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 22-year-old Black man was shot by White police officers. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/minneapolis\/217857631.html\">Community activists\u201d in Minneapolis point out similarities to Trayvon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Black, White, gun. Yep, sounds the same. News reports say Minneapolis police shot him with Heckler and Koch MP5\u2019s, full-auto 9mm submachine guns. Same thing you\u2019d see a German cop carrying. Here\u2019s a sample photo from another law enforcement agency:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130802-083540.jpg\" alt=\"20130802-083540.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/article\/stories\/s3029976.shtml\">More details here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police dog, submachine gun, car chase . . . yep, just exactly like Trayvon. No further analysis needed. Clear case of Black child killed by gun violence. So how do we prevent this tragedy from happening again?<\/p>\n<p>Universal background checks. Mayors Against Illegal Guns were in town Wednesday to read off the names of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_23766225\/minneapolis-rally-will-call-tighter-gun-background-checks\">people killed by gun violence<\/a>. The sister of the school principal who died in Newtown spoke. A relative of someone who died at Accent Signage spoke. Sensible, reasonable, background checks for all firearms transfers, that\u2019s all it would have taken to prevent every single one of those deaths.<\/p>\n<p>It does strike me as odd that the Minneapolis Police Department doesn\u2019t do background checks on its own officers every time they check a fully-automatic assault weapon out of the firearms locker to go shoot some Black children but no doubt that\u2019s due to Bush tax cuts or the Koch Brothers war on women. We could pay for all background checks by taxing the rich. And we should. For the 22-year-old Children.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To the hard left, facts are whatever they say they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A 22-year-old Black man was shot by White police officers. \u201cCommunity activists\u201d in Minneapolis point out similarities to Trayvon. Black, White, gun. Yep, sounds the same. News reports say Minneapolis police shot him with Heckler and Koch MP5\u2019s, full-auto 9mm submachine guns. Same thing you\u2019d see a German cop [&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-37671","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\/37671","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=37671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37674,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37671\/revisions\/37674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}