{"id":60328,"date":"2016-09-18T00:09:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T05:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60328"},"modified":"2020-07-30T10:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:05:45","slug":"workplace-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60328","title":{"rendered":"Workplace Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three different cases of workplace violence in America today; first, a <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/explosion-jersey-site-5k-race\/story?id=42160249\">bombing attempt on a charity 5K run on the Jersey Shore<\/a>\u00a0which went off just before the race got there, followed by a <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/09\/17\/explosion-rocks-chelsea-in-new-york-city\/\">dumpster explosion in Manhattan<\/a>\u00a0that injured 29, followed in turn by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/police-responding-to-possible-violence-at-crossroads-mall-in-st-cloud\/393850931\/\">mass stabbing at the Crossroads Mall in Saint Cloud, Minnesota<\/a>\u00a0that ended with the death of the as-yet-unnamed perp (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/story\/news\/local\/2016\/09\/17\/reports-several-hurt-crossroads-center-incident\/90607870\/\">Saint Cloud Times coverage<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Remember &#8211; while Berg&#8217;s 18th Law of Media Latency (&#8220;Nothing the media writes\/says about any emotionally charged event \u2013 a mass shooting, a police shooting, anything \u2013 should be taken seriously for 48 hours after the original incident. \u00a0It will largely be rubbish, as media outlets vie to \u201cscoop\u201d each other even on incorrect facts&#8221;) applies mostly to mass-shootings, it applies to any attention-grabbing episode.<\/p>\n<p>Only one thing is for certain; the media will do its best to try to find a conservative to blame until it is absolutely impossible.<\/p>\n<p>More as details become available.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2016\/09\/st-cloud-mall-isis-minnesota-stabbing-allah-muslim-islam-terrorism-terrorist-attack-stabbing-crossroads-stabber-mass-shopping-center\/\">this is just a dirty stinking lie<\/a>\u00a0foisted on the people by the Trumpkins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;in the heartland, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, the police chief said the attacker at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossroadscenter.com\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crossroads Center Shopping Mall<\/a> \u201cmade some references to Allah, and we have confirmed that he asked at least one person if they were Muslim before he assaulted them. We do know there were approximately eight people transported to the St. Cloud Hospital with non life-threatening injuries. The suspect was confronted by an off duty police officer and summarily shot and killed\u2026.no customers were killed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I betcha it&#8217;s a pro-lifer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three different cases of workplace violence in America today; first, a bombing attempt on a charity 5K run on the Jersey Shore\u00a0which went off just before the race got there, followed by a dumpster explosion in Manhattan\u00a0that injured 29, followed in turn by a mass stabbing at the Crossroads Mall in Saint Cloud, Minnesota\u00a0that ended [&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],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-60328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","tag-bergs-18th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60328","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=60328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74845,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60328\/revisions\/74845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}