{"id":58241,"date":"2016-04-05T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58241"},"modified":"2016-04-04T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T01:21:34","slug":"virtue-bellowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58241","title":{"rendered":"Virtue-Bellowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two men shot and killed five Black people in an ambush shooting at a cookout in the poor part of town. Police had no leads.<br \/>\nTV reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/03\/31\/pittsburgh-tv-station-ends-relationship-with-anchorwoman-after-controversial-posts.html\">posts comment on television station\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;You needn&#8217;t be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts two weeks ago Wednesday. &#8230; They are young black men, likely in their teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before. They&#8217;ve grown up there. They know the police. They&#8217;ve been arrested.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe\u2019s been fired because her comment was \u201cinconsistent with the company\u2019s ethics and journalistic standards.\u201d<br \/>\nQuestion: if she HAD been an FBI Behavioral Analyst, would the FBI be required to fire her for giving the exact same profile of the suspects?<br \/>\nDoes the Truth depend on the speaker\u2019s Credentials?<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What? \u00a0Is that a trick question?<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m gonna guess the FBI&#8217;s behavioral analysts are going to be getting a call from HR before too terribly long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Two men shot and killed five Black people in an ambush shooting at a cookout in the poor part of town. Police had no leads. TV reporter posts comment on television station\u2019s Facebook page: &#8220;You needn&#8217;t be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241","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=58241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58242,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241\/revisions\/58242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}