{"id":69867,"date":"2019-01-31T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69867"},"modified":"2019-01-29T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T00:39:48","slug":"the-wrong-lesson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69867","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four Houston cops were shot (and another sustained a non-gunshot injury) serving a warrant against a couple of drug dealers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s bad enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Houston Police Officers\u2019 Union President Joe Gamaldi <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/houston-police-officers-shot-track-police\/\">was upset<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe are sick and tired of dirt bags trying to take our lives when all we\u2019re trying to do is protect this community and our families,\u201d he said. \u201cEnough is enough.\u201d<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I get that.  It&#8217;s downright understandable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This next part &#8211; where he apparently declares war on anti-police thoughtcrime?  A little more troublesome:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cIf you\u2019re the ones that are out there spreading the rhetoric that police officers are the enemy, just know we\u2019ve all got your number now,\u00a0<\/em><strong>we\u2019re going to be keeping track of all of y\u2019all, and we\u2019re going to make sure that we hold you accountable every time you stir the pot on our police officers.<\/strong><em>We\u2019ve had enough, folks. We\u2019re out there doing our jobs every day, putting our lives on the line for our families.\u201d<\/em><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m curious what level of criticism <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Houston cops were shot (and another sustained a non-gunshot injury) serving a warrant against a couple of drug dealers. That&#8217;s bad enough. Worse? Houston Police Officers\u2019 Union President Joe Gamaldi was upset: \u201cWe are sick and tired of dirt bags trying to take our lives when all we\u2019re trying to do is protect this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867","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=69867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69868,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867\/revisions\/69868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}