{"id":88043,"date":"2024-08-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88043"},"modified":"2024-08-06T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T15:59:35","slug":"under-advisement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88043","title":{"rendered":"Under Advisement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rochester DFLer Kim Hicks reports her <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">home has been vandalized<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-v-3808eee7=\"\">Representatives for Hicks confirmed with FOX 9 that on Aug. 3, political signs in her yard, plus the siding on her home and a shed on her property were all vandalized by the masked intruders.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3808eee7=\"\">&#8220;My family was a victim of racist vandalism at our home this weekend. It has been a difficult two days, but then our community showed up,&#8221; Rep. Hicks said as part of a statement. &#8220;My family felt so much love and support from our friends, neighbors, and even strangers who came to lend a hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-v-3808eee7=\"\">&nbsp;<\/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\">House DFL Representative Kim Hicks, who represents Rochester and the surrounding areas of District 25A, has confirmed her home was vandalized over the weekend by people wearing masks who left graffiti containing racial slurs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6otblNLC81\">https:\/\/t.co\/6otblNLC81<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX 9 (@FOX9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX9\/status\/1820712696792088899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>If true, then lets hope the masked (?) men are caught and prosecuted.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, just so we remember &#8211; Berg&#8217;s 20th Law <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FZ3XJnDydR\">reads<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">All incidents of \u201chate speech\u201d not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0There&#8217;ve been so many blown-up hoaxes in Minnesota &#8211; especially, curiously, southern Minnesota &#8211; in recent years that you&#8217;d think even DFLers would realize it&#8217;s a bad idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;d also think they&#8217;d have known that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87430\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"87430\">breaking and entering and confessing to the crime<\/a> on camera, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87356\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"87356\">stalking your political opponents<\/a> while having been convicted of attacking someone with a machete, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83549\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"83549\">driving drunk with piles of edibles with loose ammunition<\/a> for your service revolver strewn about your vehicle were all bad ideas, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again &#8211; here&#8217;s hoping the vandals are caught.\u00a0 The victim is a DFLer, so it could actually happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester DFLer Kim Hicks reports her home has been vandalized: Representatives for Hicks confirmed with FOX 9 that on Aug. 3, political signs in her yard, plus the siding on her home and a shed on her property were all vandalized by the masked intruders. &#8220;My family was a victim of racist vandalism at our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88043","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=88043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88044,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88043\/revisions\/88044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}