{"id":851,"date":"2005-08-18T07:22:44","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T07:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:19","slug":"the_london_subw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"The London Subway Shooting.  and Stupid, Criminally Stupid Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More facts in the London subway shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes are coming out, including a Guardian story that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/attackonlondon\/story\/0,16132,1551340,00.html?gusrc=rss\" target=\"browser\">tried to block an independent inquiry into the shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This pretty much invalidates what I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/007228.php\" target=\"browser\">wrote earlier<\/a>, and moves this from a depressing, if understandable, tragedy to an inexcusable and more deeply depressing farce.<\/p>\n<p>People do stupid things, and sometimes when people do stupid things with guns, they go to jail. Even though they are wearing uniforms when they do them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More facts in the London subway shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes are coming out, including a Guardian story that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner tried to block an independent inquiry into the shooting. This pretty much invalidates what I wrote earlier, and moves this from a depressing, if understandable, tragedy to an inexcusable and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}