{"id":10438,"date":"2010-07-09T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T17:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10438"},"modified":"2010-07-09T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T17:51:28","slug":"on-johannes-mehserle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10438","title":{"rendered":"On Johannes Mehserle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about this all night, but I think my feelings all boil down to this:<\/p>\n

Prosecutors in Los Angeles have not won a murder conviction in a police shooting case since 1983.<\/a> Via Problem Chylde at Feministe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Argue all you want about whether Mehserle’s crime was murder or manslaughter. But please do not try to argue that this system is free of racism and brutality. Please do not try to argue that you can take an oppressed minority and a group of people with guns and the latter won’t ever abuse the former. Please do not try to argue that, at least in cases tried in L.A., no cop within this system has committed murder in 27 years.<\/p>\n

Any comments arguing that Grant “deserved it” because he was or wasn’t doing X,Y, or Z will be deleted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about this all night, but I think my feelings all boil down to this: Prosecutors in Los Angeles have not won a murder conviction in a police shooting case since 1983. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}