{"id":7230,"date":"2014-11-25T17:14:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2014-11-25T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:14:41","slug":"timing-of-ferguson-decision-is-more-than-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7230","title":{"rendered":"Timing of Ferguson decision is more than curious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This isn’t an original thought; it comes from a friend of mine who posted it on Facebook … but I’ll share it here.<\/p>\n

He wonders why the prosecutor in Ferguson, Mo., waited until 8 p.m. — well after dark — to tell the nation that the grand jury decided against prosecuting the white police officer in the death of the black youth this past summer.<\/p>\n

Why the question? Well, my friend said that “night time is riot time.”<\/p>\n

Officer Darren Wilson still might face federal prosecution in the death of Michael Brown. We’ll wait for that drama to play out.<\/p>\n

But the town of Ferguson erupted last night in violence after the prosecutor’s announcement.<\/p>\n

It makes me wonder: Couldn’t he have announced that he would wait until morning to reveal the grand jury’s decision? Would an announcement made in broad\u00a0daylight\u00a0<\/em>have perhaps calmed tensions just a little?<\/p>\n

As the late great slugger Ted Williams used to say about hitting a baseball: Timing is everything.<\/p>\n

So, too, it might be in delivering emotionally charged news to an anxious public.<\/p>\n

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This isn’t an original thought; it comes from a friend of mine who posted it on Facebook … but I’ll share it here. He wonders why the prosecutor in Ferguson, Mo., waited until 8 p.m. — well after dark — to tell the nation that the grand jury decided against prosecuting the white police officer … Continue reading Timing of Ferguson decision is more than curious<\/span> →<\/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":[13],"tags":[1261,1719,3019],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-darren-wilson","tag-ferguson-mo","tag-michael-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","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=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}