{"id":77162,"date":"2021-03-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77162"},"modified":"2021-03-23T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:50:09","slug":"poxes-to-go-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77162","title":{"rendered":"Poxes To Go Around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A group called &#8220;Capital Transparency&#8221; has posted this video, of DFL Representative John Thompson of HD67A threatening to &#8220;beat the brakes off&#8221; a couple of its reporters, near the scene of a triple homicide out on the East Side over the winter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"State Rep threatens to &quot;beat the brakes&quot; off reporter for putting him in the light\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T4Fee9Yl0IU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that Thompson benefits from immense Urban Progressive Privilege &#8211; the kind of thing that would have been treated as &#8220;a terrorist insurgency&#8221; if he&#8217;s been wearing a MAGA cap &#8211; he&#8217;ll never be held accountable for this&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;although I suppose attacking the media is a greater intersectional sin than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75304\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"75304\">threatening Bob Kroll&#8217;s neighbors<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE: I originally wrote this story last week.  Since then, I actually got a response from the Capitol Transparency guys &#8211; and it turns out Thompson was the aggressor (which wasn&#8217;t <em>initially <\/em>clear to me from the video).   I&#8217;ve rewritten accordingly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group called &#8220;Capital Transparency&#8221; has posted this video, of DFL Representative John Thompson of HD67A threatening to &#8220;beat the brakes off&#8221; a couple of its reporters, near the scene of a triple homicide out on the East Side over the winter: Given that Thompson benefits from immense Urban Progressive Privilege &#8211; the kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77162","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=77162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77186,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77162\/revisions\/77186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}