{"id":200416,"date":"2021-04-15T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/15\/good-13\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:39:00","slug":"good-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/15\/good-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/04\/police-chief-and-cop-resign-after-daunte-wright-killing.html\">Brooklyn Center police Chief and the cop who shot Daunte Wright have resigned<\/a>.  If this has happened a year ago, they would both still have their jobs. <\/p>\n<p>Also, a year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/officer-arrested-will-face-second-degree-manslaughter-charge-in-killing-of-daunte-wright\/600045829\/\">Kimberly Potter would never have been charged with manslaughter<\/a>.&nbsp; Instead, at best, the DA would have commissioned a grand jury and then thrown the case as Bob McCulloch did in the case of the Michael Brown police murder in Ferguson, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, the optics are changing.<\/p>\n<p>George Floyd&#8217;s murder, and the protests growing from that, have led to a positive change in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Brooklyn Center police Chief and the cop who shot Daunte Wright have resigned. If this has happened a year ago, they would both still have their jobs. Also, a year ago, Kimberly Potter would never have been charged with manslaughter.&nbsp; Instead, at best, the DA would have commissioned a grand jury and then &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1041,1049,1001,1059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-protests","category-racism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}