{"id":74913,"date":"2020-08-04T07:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T12:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74913"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:06:27","slug":"shot-in-the-dark-todays-news-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74913","title":{"rendered":"Shot In The Dark:   Today&#8217;s News, Months Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone in the press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/08\/body-cam-footage-of-floyds-arrest-leaked.php?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=sw&amp;utm_campaign=sw\">leaked the body cam video of the George Floyd arrest<\/a>.   Taking nothing away from the tragedy or the anger that went along with it &#8211; &#8220;knee on the throat&#8221; isn&#8217;t a good look &#8211; but seeing this, I&#8217;m thinking Keith Ellison would need <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vasiliy_Ulrikh\">Vasily Ulrikh<\/a> on the bench to get a Murder conviction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have little to add, except that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74300\">this piece from two months ago<\/a> is looking better and better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; strap in.   Officer Chauvin will be acquitted of &#8220;Unintentional Second Degree Murder&#8221;, and the other three will get away with lesser included charges.   It&#8217;s going to make the last week in May look like a kindergarten full of kids who broke into the Koolaid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in the press leaked the body cam video of the George Floyd arrest. Taking nothing away from the tragedy or the anger that went along with it &#8211; &#8220;knee on the throat&#8221; isn&#8217;t a good look &#8211; but seeing this, I&#8217;m thinking Keith Ellison would need Vasily Ulrikh on the bench to get 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":[419,7],"tags":[431,432],"class_list":["post-74913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-crime-and-punishment","tag-chauvin-trial","tag-george-floyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74913","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=74913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74918,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74913\/revisions\/74918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}