{"id":85074,"date":"2023-05-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85074"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:43:12","slug":"profile-in-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85074","title":{"rendered":"Profile In Cowardice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Feds are on the case in Minneapolis, going after the gangland bosses who, we&#8217;re told, are driving the crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">45 Minneapolis gang members and associates federally indicted.<br><br>TL;DR: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNCourts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MNCourts<\/a> and prosecutors have failed to do their job.<br><br>Several people on this list we&#39;ve previously posted. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/63JDsILiBc\">https:\/\/t.co\/63JDsILiBc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimeWatchMpls\/status\/1653884667106304000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting mobsters off the street is a good start.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is also a very bad sign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Minneapolis, Hennepin iCounty and the State&#8217;s job.  Having the Feds do it just means that Jacob Frey won&#8217;t have to answer, <em>personally<\/em>, to the &#8220;Progressive&#8221; goon squad that bedevils him; that Mary Moriarty doesn&#8217;t have to explain to the &#8220;progressives&#8221; who own her why she&#8217;s rounding up gangsters; why Governor Klink doesn&#8217;t have to take flak from the &#8220;progressives&#8221; that have wires hooked to his giblets.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s cowardice, and political expediency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Feds are on the case in Minneapolis, going after the gangland bosses who, we&#8217;re told, are driving the crime. Getting mobsters off the street is a good start. But this is also a very bad sign. This is Minneapolis, Hennepin iCounty and the State&#8217;s job. Having the Feds do it just means that Jacob [&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":[465],"class_list":["post-85074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","tag-mary-moriarty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85074","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=85074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85076,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85074\/revisions\/85076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}