felony armed-robbery conviction<\/a>, pending charges for fleeing police in a high-speed chase and for violence against another woman, beat this woman badly enough she needed paramedics and then interfered with the paramedics rendering medical treatment to the women he beat, are sufficient facts for me to conclude that this is a person of Bad Character.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s not airtight proof that he acted in conformity with his Bad Character when the police arrived. It\u2019s not conclusive proof that he fought the police and tried to kill them with their own guns. There\u2019s eyewitness testimony on both sides of the issue, both sides have motive to lie so that\u2019s a wash, and the video hasn\u2019t been released yet. Who to believe comes down to reputation and character.<\/p>\n
As between a person of Bad Character and a couple of cops who have unblemished reputations (as far as I know), I\u2019m inclined to suspect the suspect did act in conformity with his Bad Character, did engage in another instance of assaultive behavior, did try to gain a weapon he could use to murder the police, did put the cops into a life-and-death struggle, and therefore did, in fact, deserve to be shot, and shot as many times as it took for him to stop trying to kill them. <\/p>\n
Notice I did not mention the word \u201cBlack.\u201d That\u2019s because race doesn\u2019t matter to this analysis. This is about human nature, about how people really act in the real world. When a guy with a history of violence threatens violence, reasonable people believe him, as his ex-girlfriend believed he really did intend to burn her alive. Later, when the cops shoot him, it\u2019s reasonable to believe he was beating on them as he beat on his new girlfriend. I\u2019m not drawing a legal conclusion, my conclusion is not admissible in a court of law, but I think it\u2019s an entirely reasonable at this stage of the proceedings to strongly suspect that the dead guy deserved it.<\/p>\n
Also, speaking of character, I note Governor Deer-in-the-Headlights found time to meet with the Bad Character\u2019s family but has not found time to visit the only true victim in this situation, the domestic abuse victim. His priorities lay revealed. <\/p>\n
Domestic Abuser Lives Matter?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
True to form, the DFL is following the advice of its Lord and Savior, Rahm Emanuel: never waste a crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The fact that Jamar Clark has a felony armed-robbery conviction, pending charges for fleeing police in a high-speed chase and for violence against another woman, beat this woman badly enough she needed paramedics and then interfered with the paramedics rendering medical treatment to the women he beat, are sufficient […]<\/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-56289","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\/56289","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=56289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56290,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56289\/revisions\/56290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}