{"id":5332,"date":"2009-09-01T07:16:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T12:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2009-09-01T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T12:16:23","slug":"the-best-thing-that-could-happen-to-the-gang-strike-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5332","title":{"rendered":"The Best Thing That Could Happen To The Gang Strike Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxtwincities.com\/dpp\/news\/Mpls_Officers_Investigated_for_Off_Duty_Antics_aug_31_2009\">investigate Minneapolis police softball team<\/a>\u00a0for a violent drunken binge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Minneapolis Police Department\u2019s internal affairs unit is investigating a police softball team after an alleged night of drinking and brawls.<\/p>\n<p>The softball game itself was in Northeast Park last Tuesday, where Minneapolis police took on Minneapolis firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the off-duty Minneapolis officers arrived at the Double Deuce strip club, still in their softball uniforms, the owner told FOX 9, the cops were so intoxicated that the bouncer wouldn&#8217;t let them in the strip club.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so that&#8217;s one thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The owner says the officers even started flashing their badges, trying to intimidate the bouncer. And in retaliation, one of the officers allegedly urinated on the club&#8217;s wall. The incident was caught on video.<\/p>\n<p>With closing time nearing, the team went to Mayslak&#8217;s Bar a few blocks away. The owner and staff told FOX 9, the officers picked a couple of fights and told patrons no one could stop them because they were all cops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Outside the bar, one of the cops allegedly assaulted a man, who was passing by, after he tried to break up one of those fights.<\/p>\n<p>The Minneapolis Police Department\u2019s internal affairs unit has been making the rounds at the northeast bars, looking for witnesses, trying to get the story straight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The audio on the Fox9 report said that people are reticent about talking; they don&#8217;t want to get on the wrong side of the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis police investigate Minneapolis police softball team\u00a0for a violent drunken binge: The Minneapolis Police Department\u2019s internal affairs unit is investigating a police softball team after an alleged night of drinking and brawls. The softball game itself was in Northeast Park last Tuesday, where Minneapolis police took on Minneapolis firefighters. By the time the off-duty Minneapolis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","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=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}