{"id":6281,"date":"2014-08-18T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/18\/facts-coming-in-on-the-brown-shooting\/"},"modified":"2014-08-18T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T14:00:09","slug":"facts-coming-in-on-the-brown-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6281","title":{"rendered":"Facts coming in on the Brown shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re getting more facts about the Ferguson, Mo., shooting of Michael Brown.<\/p>\n<p>They aren&#8217;t looking good for the police officer who gunned down the unarmed teenager.<\/p>\n<p>An independent autopsy reveals that Brown was shot six times, including twice in the head.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Autopsy Shows Michael Brown Was Struck at Least 6 Times\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F08%2F18%2Fus%2Fmichael-brown-autopsy-shows-he-was-shot-at-least-6-times.html#?secret=nHfsaIgEiV\" data-secret=\"nHfsaIgEiV\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s death has sparked ferocious rioting in the St. Louis suburb &#8212; and protests around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Brown was African-American; the officer who shot him is white. Ferguson is a majority-black community, yet the police force has just three African-American officers. The case has become the latest metaphor for alleged police intolerance of young African-American males.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Justice Department vows to perform its own autopsy on Brown&#8217;s remains to determine what, if anything, the federal government should do about this case.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has slapped a curfew on the community. State police have taken over the investigation from local cops, who&#8217;ve mishandled badly the immediate follow-up to the tragic incident.<\/p>\n<p>So many questions remain about this case. I hesitate yet to make any hasty judgments.<\/p>\n<p>The latest autopsy results, though, suggest that the officer who shot the young man to death, has some serious explaining to do.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all ears.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re getting more facts about the Ferguson, Mo., shooting of Michael Brown. They aren&#8217;t looking good for the police officer who gunned down the unarmed teenager. An independent autopsy reveals that Brown was shot six times, including twice in the head. Brown&#8217;s death has sparked ferocious rioting in the St. Louis suburb &#8212; and protests &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facts coming in on the Brown shooting<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1008,1719,3019,4968],"class_list":["post-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-civil-rights","tag-ferguson-mo","tag-michael-brown","tag-u-s-justice-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}