{"id":58932,"date":"2016-05-27T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58932"},"modified":"2016-05-26T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T16:28:25","slug":"the-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58932","title":{"rendered":"The Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was the &#8220;school service officer&#8221; in this video &#8211; posted on Facebook yesterday, shot\u00a0at Central High School in Saint Paul &#8211; the bad guy, using a <em>lot\u00a0<\/em>of force to subdue a guy who, it&#8217;s claimed, had transferred to a different school and was back for some unspecified reason?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnelson.moroukian%2Fvideos%2Fvb.1651500299%2F10208210619977144%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or, as the school district said, was he just doing his job with an uncooperative, trespassing student?<\/p>\n<p>None of us saw how this episode started. \u00a0And\u00a0Black Lives Matter is involved\u00a0&#8211; they had a rally at Central yesterday &#8211; so all sides are going to go into siege mode; we&#8217;ll never know.<\/p>\n<p>And since we&#8217;ll never know, most would say it&#8217;d be most prudent to say we don&#8217;t know who the good and bad guys are in this video.<\/p>\n<p>But we do. We most definitely do have a bad &#8220;guy&#8221;; the school staffer who swoops into the frame around 1:21, to tell the kid to stop taping what&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s the bad guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was the &#8220;school service officer&#8221; in this video &#8211; posted on Facebook yesterday, shot\u00a0at Central High School in Saint Paul &#8211; the bad guy, using a lot\u00a0of force to subdue a guy who, it&#8217;s claimed, had transferred to a different school and was back for some unspecified reason? Or, as the school district said, was [&hellip;]<\/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-58932","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\/58932","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=58932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58936,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58932\/revisions\/58936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}