{"id":78007,"date":"2021-05-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78007"},"modified":"2021-05-23T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T16:09:24","slug":"free-fire-zone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78007","title":{"rendered":"Free Fire Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s rapidly becoming a Berg&#8217;s Law:  if the media doesn&#8217;t give any demographic details about a violent criminal (say, a white Hell&#8217;s Angel with an umbrella), you can infer the rest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I saw the initial coverage of Saturday morning&#8217;s bloodbath in the Warehouse District, I treated it as a test.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up until noonish yesterday (Sunday)?  Even after the arrest was made?  Not a word about the shooter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; was I right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"871\" height=\"671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SHooter.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78008\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SHooter.png 871w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SHooter-300x231.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SHooter-768x592.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SHooter-389x300.png 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carroll was arrested in 2016 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hennepin.us\/stories\/-\/media\/Attorney\/NEWS\/2016\/Carroll-jawan-Complaint.pdf\">a variety of felonies egregious enough<\/a> for Mike Freeman to put down his bottle for a moment at try to make an example of.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carroll  ended up getting all charges dismissed, in exchange for pleading guilty to &#8220;disorderly condcut&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember &#8211; public safety is a privilege.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rapidly becoming a Berg&#8217;s Law: if the media doesn&#8217;t give any demographic details about a violent criminal (say, a white Hell&#8217;s Angel with an umbrella), you can infer the rest. When I saw the initial coverage of Saturday morning&#8217;s bloodbath in the Warehouse District, I treated it as a test. Up until noonish yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78007","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=78007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78009,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78007\/revisions\/78009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}