{"id":79754,"date":"2021-10-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79754"},"modified":"2021-10-15T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T12:41:46","slug":"unexpectedly-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79754","title":{"rendered":"#Unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Turns out the man charged with murder in last weekend&#8217;s west end Saint Paul shoot out had never, ever committed a crime of any sort.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>No, that\u2019s a lie. I couldn\u2019t resist.He ha<a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2021\/10\/13\/terry-brown-criminal-record-st-paul-mass-shooting\/\">d a rap sheet longer than John Thompson\u2019s list of social offenses, <\/a>and at least as long a list of judges who kept letting him skate: <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <\/p><p>The man charged with murder and attempted murder in the St. Paul bar shooting last weekend has a long criminal history, and court records show 33-year-old Terry Brown should never have had a gun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It appears that at every turn Brown was given breaks by the system, breaks that allowed him to be free to go into the Seventh Street Truck bar Saturday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In 2018, Brown was charged with a felony for violating a no-contact order in a domestic case. He had a long record, with felonies including a 2016 conviction for violating the same no-contact order. In the 2018 case, he twice missed court dates and warrants were issued<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If the system had done what it was supposed to do with convicted felons, Brown would have been in jail last Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out the man charged with murder in last weekend&#8217;s west end Saint Paul shoot out had never, ever committed a crime of any sort. No, that\u2019s a lie. I couldn\u2019t resist.He had a rap sheet longer than John Thompson\u2019s list of social offenses, and at least as long a list of judges who kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79754","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=79754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79757,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79754\/revisions\/79757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}