{"id":6642,"date":"2021-01-06T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2021-01-06T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:32:18","slug":"justice-in-action-in-kenosha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/justice-in-action-in-kenosha\/","title":{"rendered":"JUSTICE IN ACTION IN KENOSHA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/crap-in-kenosha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As I explained here in August<\/a> the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin was poorly and incompletely reported as a presumably racially-motivated shooting of an unarmed black man by white police. In fact, Blake was armed with a lethal weapon and within a fraction of a second of stabbing the officer who shot him at the time the service pistol was discharged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I listened in real time on Tuesday when the prosecutor explained in detail why his office was not going to bring charges against the officer who pulled the trigger. I thought the <a href=\"https:\/\/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/files\/digital-presentation-on-the-officer-involved-shooting-of-jacob-blake-202101051647522363.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prosecutor did a masterful job<\/a> of explaining the details and the rationale of the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades now I\u2019ve urged police to \u201cget ahead of the narrative.\u201d If the truth revealed in that press conference had been shown to the public within a day or two of the shooting, the burning and looting that ravaged Kenosha would very likely not have happened.&nbsp; The same is true of the triple shooting (double fatal) which occurred during that long spasm of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please take the time to view the digital explanation linked above. Far too many people already have leaped to a wrongful judgment because they <em>didn\u2019t know <\/em>those details, which need to be understood to form a meaningful opinion on this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I explained here in August the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin was poorly and incompletely reported as a presumably racially-motivated shooting of an unarmed black man by white police. In fact, Blake was armed with a lethal weapon and within a fraction of a second of stabbing the officer who shot him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6643,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/6643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}