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John Thompson – the DFL endorsed candidate for the Minnesota House<\/strong>, who threatened to burn down Hugo, Minnesota<\/strong> – is clearly not a fan of the police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And it’s causing the DFL problems – while by all indications Ken Martin is keeping Thompson locked up in a closet and not letting him anywhere near the public, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, normally a reliable endorser of DFL candidates, has switched its endorsements in two swing House districts, and possibly more. The kerfuffle – which the media hasn’t been able to bury, despite their best efforts – caused the DFL to bag a fundraiser with Thompson and other DFL officials last week, which is a big deal, two months before an election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, I’ve had a policy since the beginning of this blog: I leave peoples’ families out of it. Some of my various stalkers haven’t been quite as discriminating – and yes, that does make me a better person than them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And I’m not going to change that now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But while it seems that candidate Thompson’s son has had some brushes with the law, it also seems that the son also owes his life to one of the Saint Paul cops<\/a> who, Thompson the Elder reminds us, “ain’t s**t”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In early August 2018, a St. Paul officer was credited with saving his life after he was shot outside a funeral home on the 700 block of Portland Avenue.<\/p> Thompson was\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0in an alley with gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen after a confrontation with a fellow citizen became violent. The St. Paul Police Department\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that officer Mathew Jones aided Thompson and stemmed his bleeding until EMS arrived to transport him to the hospital. It is unlikely that Thompson would have survived without the medical care Jones administered, authorities said.<\/p> Reports from\u00a0Fox 9<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Pioneer Press<\/a>\u00a0identified the man who was shot on Aug. 6, 2018 as Thompson\u2019s son Damarco. The St. Paul Police Department confirmed with Alpha News that Damarco\u2019s life was saved by Jones, who received the Life Saving Award for his actions that day.<\/p> \u201cWhile the saving of a life is generally attributed to the hospital and responding EMS crews, the officers who take those initial actions, such as Officer Jones, should receive the lion\u2019s share of the credit,\u201d St. Paul Fire\u2019s EMS coordinator, Captain Kenneth Adams, said of the incident. \u201cFor if it were not for them and their actions, the EMS crews and hospital staff would not have a patient to work with.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I leave families out of things – but it doesn’t seem remotely unfair to point this out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Thompson – the DFL endorsed candidate for the Minnesota House, who threatened to burn down Hugo, Minnesota – is clearly not a fan of the police. And it’s causing the DFL problems – while by all indications Ken Martin is keeping Thompson locked up in a closet and not letting him anywhere near the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,320,18],"tags":[342],"class_list":["post-75304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-mndfl","category-pc","tag-blm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75304","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=75304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75305,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75304\/revisions\/75305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}