{"id":3517,"date":"2006-12-30T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:21:31","slug":"you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-post-dispatch-says-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato-post-dispatch-says-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato, Post-Dispatch Says Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/25E5278F0B09D0FA862572530075E8B5?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Police shoot 15-year-old<\/a>.  The headline leads one to think that just maybe the police do this routinely to keep in practice.  Perhaps the officers were mistaken and were scheduled this week to shoot a 16-year-old, but they all look so adult these days.<\/p>\n<p>Any precipitating circumstances.  Not really, if you&#8217;re a <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> reporter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Louis police shot and killed a 15-year-old after the kid jumped out of a fleeing truck and pointed a handgun at an officer Friday afternoon, said Chief Joseph Mokwa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just a normal kid in the street, cut down by an insensitive police force.<\/p>\n<p>What, you accuse me of hyperbole?  Here&#8217;s how the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> characterizes the urchin in the last paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mokwa said the truck had been rented in outstate Missouri, but police were unclear why <b>the victim<\/b> was inside it. Police were still seeking the driver of the truck.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perps who pull guns on the police are <i>victims<\/i> to our friends at Lee Enterprises, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police shoot 15-year-old. The headline leads one to think that just maybe the police do this routinely to keep in practice. Perhaps the officers were mistaken and were scheduled this week to shoot a 16-year-old, but they all look so adult these days. Any precipitating circumstances. Not really, if you&#8217;re a Post-Dispatch reporter: St. Louis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18349,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/18349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}