{"id":71218,"date":"2019-05-03T08:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71218"},"modified":"2019-05-03T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:01:01","slug":"eggs-for-the-omelet-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71218","title":{"rendered":"Eggs For The Omelet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Mohamed Noor has been convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Justine Diamond, the woman who called 911 seeking help from her Southwest Minneapolis apartment and ended up being shot dead by the cops who responded. <br>Her death is a tragedy.&nbsp; Her parents lost a daughter.&nbsp; Her fianc\u00e9 lost a family.&nbsp; Noor\u2019s wife is losing a husband, his son, a father.&nbsp; But that\u2019s not the worst of it. The worst is that the people who created the situation won\u2019t suffer at all, won\u2019t learn anything by it, won\u2019t hesitate to create it again.&nbsp; Because for social justice warriors who count progress by color instead of competence, this tragedy wasn\u2019t even a speed bump on the road to Utopia.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, I blame the police policy of putting the finger on the trigger when drawing a handgun.  I suspect the rationale is a cop is only supposed to draw when the threat is immediate and lethal, but it leaves a cop at the mercy of his response to adrenaline.  And that can be pretty uncontrollable.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Noor has been convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Justine Diamond, the woman who called 911 seeking help from her Southwest Minneapolis apartment and ended up being shot dead by the cops who responded. Her death is a tragedy.&nbsp; Her parents lost a daughter.&nbsp; Her fianc\u00e9 lost a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71218","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=71218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71226,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71218\/revisions\/71226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}