According to Don Lemon on CNN, his sources say that officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted.<\/p>\n
I’m watching CNN tonight for the first time since probably 9\/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
I know \u2013 I feel dirty too.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Van Jones expresses an easement the Tea Party opposes police brutality.<\/p>\n
Nope. No bias there.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Is anybody but me betting that the media is hitting its knees and praying for a major riot?<\/p>\n
UPDATE : and here comes the press conference…<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Dist. Atty. takes a not remotely muted whack at the mainstream media. Good.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: “No probable cause exists to indict Officer Wilson”.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: As the grand jury report continues, CNN is showing footage of demagogues\u2026 well, demagogue in.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Observation of the crowd as presented on CNN: lots of black people with visible faces; lots of twentysomething white people with bandannas over their faces.<\/p>\n
It looks like some stuff is being thrown around \u2013 and some people are running hither and Jan. Hard to tell if anything is actually breaking out yet.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Shrill media woman asking the district attorney if the police will in the future be required to shoot for hands and legs, went under attack \u2013 or not shoot on armed suspects.<\/p>\n
Somebody’s been watching too many movies.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Reporter who looks like he was from the Pacific Network asks: why are there no laws protecting the likes of Michael Wilson?”<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Oh joy. The oresident is next.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: CNN talking head \u2013 I think it’s Jeffrey Toobin, but I can’t tell for sure, knows what really matters whether; defending the media against the district attorney’s complaints about their wretched performance in this whole case.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Mark Garragos is a disgrace to the legal profession, and to America.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: reports of gunfire. Good news \u2013 the reports are coming from the mainstream media, so they’re probably BS.<\/p>\n
But it did take CNN precisely 10 seconds to put it a screaming “Gunshots Heard in Ferguson” banner.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: President Obama opens with “this nation is built on the rule of law”. I couldn’t help but laugh.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: at first blush, Obama’s speech is not a bad one. It’s not exactly soaring rhetoric, and that’s probably okay.<\/p>\n
Related news \u2013 wow, that’s a lot of teargas.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: oh, goody \u2013 cars burning, teargas in the air.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: a very winded sounding Jake Tapper is reporting bricks being thrown, looting, cars overturned.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: reporters are getting to your guest. So at least there’s some<\/em> good news.<\/p>\n UPDATE: Van Jones assures us of the vast majority of the crowd is peaceful \u2013 but there is apparently quite a bit of teargas. And that’s where the media are, naturally.<\/p>\n UPDATE: Don Lemon apparently needed to pay attention during gas mask training. He tried to don his mask, but was overcome.<\/p>\n UPDATE: I don’t know what makes for worse television \u2013 Don Lemon gagging on tear gas, or Don Lemon psychoanalyzing the crowd.<\/p>\n UPDATE: i’m not going to say that there’s no justification for black anger with a white police department \u2013 but if I hear Don lemon rationalize the crowds violence anymore, I’m a grab a teargas lunch for myself.<\/p>\n UPDATE: cNN’s Chris Cuomo needs to shut up and put a gas mask on.<\/p>\n UPDATE: Jake Tapper is on the scene of extended vandalism and looting.<\/p>\n UPDATE: Cuomo is reporting handgun fire in response to teargas launchers. <\/p>\n UPDATE: producing live spot news broadcast is difficult. Never let anyone tell you otherwise. But I get the impression that the wheels are coming off cNN’s production the moment.<\/p>\n UPDATE: numerous reports of protesters firing handguns at the police. This is incredibly ominous \u2013 in the entire history of American protest, that has been extremely, extremely rare, especially in a nation that is as relatively heavily armed as the United States is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to Don Lemon on CNN, his sources say that officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted. I’m watching CNN tonight for the first time since probably 9\/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan. I know \u2013 I feel dirty too. UPDATE: Van Jones expresses an easement the Tea Party opposes police brutality. Nope. No bias […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49364","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=49364"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49394,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49364\/revisions\/49394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}