{"id":8599,"date":"2015-03-16T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8599"},"modified":"2015-03-16T03:15:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T03:15:12","slug":"ferguson-shooting-suspect-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8599","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson shooting suspect in custody"},"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>That didn&#8217;t take long.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days after two Ferguson, Mo., police officers were ambushed, authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the crime.<\/p>\n<p>He is 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/police-announce-arrest-ferguson-police-shootings-175442302.html<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s allow the system now to do its work.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is accused of wounding the two officers who were watching a demonstration involving much of the recent racial tension that has gripped the St. Louis suburban community. This is where a young black man was shot to death by a white police officer; a grand jury declined to indict the officer for the young man&#8217;s death; violent protests erupted; the officer quit the police force; and the Justice Department has decided against pursuing federal civil rights charges against the officer.<\/p>\n<p>Against that backdrop, someone shot the officers.<\/p>\n<p>Williams told authorities he was shooting at someone else with whom he was having a disagreement. St. Louis County officials aren&#8217;t buying the story.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever, this case has taken another bizarre turn.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just hoping we can determine the guilt or innocence of a young man accused of a terrible crime.<\/p>\n<p>As U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said, whoever did this is nothing more than\u00a0a &#8220;punk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, even punks deserve fair justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>That didn&#8217;t take long. Just a few days after two Ferguson, Mo., police officers were ambushed, authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the crime. He is 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams. http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/police-announce-arrest-ferguson-police-shootings-175442302.html Let&#8217;s allow the system now to do its work. Williams is accused of wounding the two officers who were watching a demonstration involving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ferguson shooting suspect in custody<\/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":[13],"tags":[1354,1617,1719,1721,3019,3630],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-ferguson-mo","tag-ferguson-riots","tag-michael-brown","tag-police-officers-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599","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=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}