{"id":75030,"date":"2020-08-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75030"},"modified":"2020-08-16T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:36:07","slug":"think-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75030","title":{"rendered":"Think Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This is the kind of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/knowledgeisgood.net\/2020\/08\/13\/the-george-floyd-fall-guys\/\" target=\"_blank\">detailed, reasoned explanation for Floyd&#8217;s death<\/a>\u00a0that the jury will hear from defense experts.\u00a0 It includes the Power Point slides right out of the Minneapolis Police Department training on when and how to properly kneel on a suspect&#8217;s neck.<\/p><p>If I were on the jury, I would be hard pressed to believe beyond a reasonable doubt that all four cops were acting from malice or hatred or racist intent to kill.\u00a0 On the contrary, it looks to me as if they followed the department-approved policy to the letter, exactly as their superior had instructed and trained them to do.<\/p><p>The fact it all went sideways isn&#8217;t these cops&#8217; fault.\u00a0 They shouldn&#8217;t be the fall guys for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Any bets on whether the &#8220;Unintentional 2nd Degree Murder&#8221; charge gets dismissed before trial? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kind of\u00a0detailed, reasoned explanation for Floyd&#8217;s death\u00a0that the jury will hear from defense experts.\u00a0 It includes the Power Point slides right out of the Minneapolis Police Department training on when and how to properly kneel on a suspect&#8217;s neck. If I were on the jury, I would be hard pressed to believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75030","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=75030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75036,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75030\/revisions\/75036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}