{"id":70177,"date":"2019-03-07T07:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70177"},"modified":"2019-03-07T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:48:56","slug":"petty-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70177","title":{"rendered":"Jim Backstrom, Wannabe Petty Tyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching the testimony in front of the house judiciary committee last night, I was most struck by the Testimony of Dakota county county attorney Jim Backstrom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where &#8220;struck by &#8220;= &#8220;terrified&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would seem Mr. Backstrom considers due process to be a hindrance in doing his job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_2802.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_2802.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_2802-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_2802-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo courtesy Rob Doar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Baxter may be one of the most loathsome people in public life in Minnesota \u2013 as we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26196\">showed some years ago, this very same topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the testimony in front of the house judiciary committee last night, I was most struck by the Testimony of Dakota county county attorney Jim Backstrom. Where &#8220;struck by &#8220;= &#8220;terrified&#8221; It would seem Mr. Backstrom considers due process to be a hindrance in doing his job. Photo courtesy Rob Doar Mr. Baxter may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177","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=70177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70184,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177\/revisions\/70184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}