{"id":75235,"date":"2020-09-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75235"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:06:27","slug":"bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75235","title":{"rendered":"Bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On May 31, prosecutors learned Floyd died of an overdose. On August 25,<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/minnesota-v-derek-chauvin-et-al-the-prosecutions-dirty-little-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0they admitted it in court<\/a>.<\/p><p>Charges against the officers still have not been dismissed. One remains in jail, in super-max prison, in Oak Park Heights.\u00a0<\/p><p>I seem\u00a0to recall someone in the comments lecturing me on the ethical duties of a prosecutor as explanation why he was confident the state would win a conviction.\u00a0 Yeah?\u00a0 Not when your own medical examiner concedes it was an overdose.\u00a0<\/p><p>I&#8217;m ready for my apology.\u00a0 I bet Chauvin is, too.\u00a0 I wonder if the Lawyer&#8217;s Board of Professional Responsibility is taking complaints in person these days, or on-line only.\u00a0 Because sitting on exculpatory evidence for three months, publicly branding a man you know to be innocent as a murder, encouraging people to riot to protest a crime that never occured . . . those acts seem to violate the Rules of Professional Conduct, particularly Rules 3.8 (a), (d) and (f).<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of my enduring pessimism about politics in Minnesota is that, between the media, the irregularities in the election system, and the mass of brainwashed droogs that would vote DFL if Josef Mengele came back from the dead and got the DFL endorsement by standing on his head while chanting &#8220;Black Cadavers Matter&#8221; and give him 70% of the vote anyway, is that accountability &#8211; at least, the accountability not manifested by people voting with their feet &#8211; always evades them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it doesn&#8217;t happen soon &#8211; in some form other than &#8220;Minneapolis turning into a cold Flint&#8221; &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;ll matter anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 31, prosecutors learned Floyd died of an overdose. On August 25,\u00a0they admitted it in court. Charges against the officers still have not been dismissed. One remains in jail, in super-max prison, in Oak Park Heights.\u00a0 I seem\u00a0to recall someone in the comments lecturing me on the ethical duties of a prosecutor as explanation [&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],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-75235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","tag-chauvin-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75235","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=75235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75240,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75235\/revisions\/75240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}