{"id":50873,"date":"2015-01-23T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50873"},"modified":"2015-01-23T05:50:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:50:18","slug":"hands-up-dont-spread-narratives-without-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50873","title":{"rendered":"Hands Up: Don&#8217;t Spread Narratives Without Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of months of investigation, the Justice Department \u2013 that would be Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department \u2013 has <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/01\/22\/ferguson-the-line-to-apologize-forms-on-the-left\/\">reached the same conclusion in on the Michael Brown case<\/a> that the state grand jury did several months ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s reiterate that. Eric Holder\u2019s Justice Department has looked at the case and decided that the evidence indicates Officer Wilson was justified in shooting Michael Brown.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually not much of a surprise. When local prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced the grand jury\u2019s decision not to prosecute the officer, he strongly emphasized that federal investigators had access to the exact same evidence, which was his way of expressing confidence that they would reach the same conclusions. The Times report confirms this: \u201cThe federal investigation did not uncover any facts that differed significantly from the evidence made public by the authorities in Missouri late last year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> have you noticed we only get asked to have a &#8220;conversation about race&#8221; after an ugly, inflammatory event that jacks everyone&#8217;s emotions to 11?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of months of investigation, the Justice Department \u2013 that would be Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department \u2013 has reached the same conclusion in on the Michael Brown case that the state grand jury did several months ago: Let\u2019s reiterate that. Eric Holder\u2019s Justice Department has looked at the case and decided that 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":[7,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50873","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=50873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50874,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50873\/revisions\/50874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}