{"id":85396,"date":"2023-06-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85396"},"modified":"2023-06-18T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T02:03:28","slug":"ghastly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85396","title":{"rendered":"Ghastly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The descriptions of the accident over the weekend that killed five MInneapolis women were bad enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing it is another matter entirely:<\/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\">WARNING: Disturbing video shows moment of impact from reckless driver speeding &amp; running a red light before killing five people and fleeing the scene. Sources have identified the driver as Derrick John Thompson, the son of former DFL state Rep. John Thompson. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JVvNDwuaOV\">pic.twitter.com\/JVvNDwuaOV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Liz Collin (@lizcollin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizcollin\/status\/1670471436446867456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I know it&#8217;s a trick of the light and angle and video &#8211; but it looks like the victims car is completely erased.  It takes a lot to upset me.  This did it. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure how any jury seeing this video doesn&#8217;t go into the room with a serious bias against the driver&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;assuming it ever goes to trial.  How sick is it that we have to preface all accounts of tragedies and atrocities in Minneapolis with a reference to &#8220;Moriarty Justice&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we do &#8211; because the driver, Derrick Thompson, has apparently already skated from one heinous traffic crime &#8211; a fact we learn on the 22nd and final paragraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Thompson has a long history of driving-related offenses, including multiple convictions for driving with a revoked or suspended license, according to state court and Department of Public Safety records. His license was reinstated in March 2023 and remained active at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Which was five paragraphs below the fact that he is the son of former DFL representative John Thompson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Though police have not publicly named the driver, two sources identified him as 27-year-old Derrick John Thompson, of Brooklyn Park. Public records indicate that he is the son of former state Rep. John Thompson, DFL-St. Paul. John Thompson did not respond to messages seeking comment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as the sins of the father aren&#8217;t visited on the sons, a son&#8217;s crime isn&#8217;t a father&#8217;s fault.   The fact that Thompson the Younger apparently benefitted from revolving door justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the dead are Somali, in Hennepin County.   I doubt even Moriarty can ignore that.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The descriptions of the accident over the weekend that killed five MInneapolis women were bad enough. Seeing it is another matter entirely: Not sure how any jury seeing this video doesn&#8217;t go into the room with a serious bias against the driver&#8230; &#8230;assuming it ever goes to trial. How sick is it that we have [&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-85396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85397,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85396\/revisions\/85397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}