{"id":80451,"date":"2021-12-30T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80451"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T17:02:54","slug":"its-the-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80451","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s The Cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this week, we noted that an anonymous Hennepin county official had ordered an investigation of journalist Rebecca Brannon, who is just about the only reporter in the Twin Cities to be actively asking questions about the incident a few weeks back with sheriff Hutchinson..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the Medina Police Department, they are apparently no longer anonymous:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_2417.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_2417.jpg 614w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_2417-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So why did the Medina police decide to give up the identity of the Hennepin county official who had brought the cops sniffing after  Brannon and, oddly, her parents?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe somebody realizes there\u2019s a first amendment lawsuit just waiting to happen here, and ashes need to be covered?<\/p><p>Reminder: I will be talking with Brannon this Saturday at 2 o\u2019clock on the Northern Alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So \u2013 will the Twin Cities main stream media, stenographers though they largely are, be shamed into actually covering the story, finally?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, we noted that an anonymous Hennepin county official had ordered an investigation of journalist Rebecca Brannon, who is just about the only reporter in the Twin Cities to be actively asking questions about the incident a few weeks back with sheriff Hutchinson.. Thanks to the Medina Police Department, they are apparently no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-right-altmedia","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80451","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=80451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80452,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80451\/revisions\/80452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}