{"id":54689,"date":"2015-08-06T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54689"},"modified":"2015-08-06T07:22:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:22:39","slug":"open-letter-to-ramco-attorney-john-choi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54689","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Ramco Attorney John Choi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: John Choi, Ramco Attorney<br \/>\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg, uppity peasant<br \/>\nRe: Wrist Slaps<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Choi,<\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2015\/08\/05\/st-paul-teens-charged-in-crime-spree-that-ended-with-friends-death\/\">you charged<\/a> the three accomplices of Laurentai Broadbent &#8211; the Saint Paul teen and apparent gang wannabe &#8211; with aggravated robbery, vehicle theft, and discharge of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The law allows you to charge accomplices in a crime that leads to a death &#8211; even of one of the criminals &#8211; with murder.<\/p>\n<p>So why not murder, or manslaughter?<\/p>\n<p>Gang activity in Saint Paul is booming &#8211; or at least that&#8217;s how it appears on the street. \u00a0So why not deter all those young wannabees from committing crimes against, y&#8217;know, actual citizens?<\/p>\n<p>It almost looks like you don&#8217;t want to deter them\u00a0<em>all that bad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Please think about it. \u00a0Then think about it harder.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: John Choi, Ramco Attorney From: \u00a0Mitch Berg, uppity peasant Re: Wrist Slaps Mr. Choi, This week, you charged the three accomplices of Laurentai Broadbent &#8211; the Saint Paul teen and apparent gang wannabe &#8211; with aggravated robbery, vehicle theft, and discharge of a firearm. The law allows you to charge accomplices in a crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-54689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-st-paul","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54689","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=54689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54691,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54689\/revisions\/54691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}