{"id":9489,"date":"2014-12-04T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2014-12-04T14:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:28:54","slug":"another-thing-i-dont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9489","title":{"rendered":"Another thing I don&#8217;t understand&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just read an article about the &#8220;tips&#8221; that the St. Louis police force tweeted the other day for young black kids to follow to make sure they don&#8217;t get shot by the police while playing with toy guns&#8230;first, don&#8217;t ever use them&#8230;anywhere, anytime&#8230;and if you do and the police come&#8230;throw them away and lie down on ground so you don&#8217;t look threatening to the police&#8230;.not like any white guy that is open carrying a rifle on his back into anywhere he wants to&#8230;no, not like that&#8230;or not like the white guy with an assault rifle that was threatening to blow cops heads off while drunk and in the street&#8230;.then, the reaction was to politely ask him &#8220;what&#8217;s wrong, and is there anything we can do to help&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 a little different than the reaction Tamir Rice got when he was playing with his toy gun while black&#8230;when the police screamed up to him, piled out of the car and shot him within 5 seconds. What is the takeaway here? Don&#8217;t be a black kid&#8230;anywhere, ever, or you will die by the police&#8230;.when are we going to do something about this crap?\u00a0 Geez&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just read an article about the &#8220;tips&#8221; that the St. Louis police force tweeted the other day for young black kids to follow to make sure they don&#8217;t get shot by the police while playing with toy guns&#8230;first, don&#8217;t ever use them&#8230;anywhere, anytime&#8230;and if you do and the police come&#8230;throw them away and lie down &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another thing I don&#8217;t understand&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1142,1140],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-st-louis-police","tag-tamir-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9492,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}