{"id":8605,"date":"2015-03-16T17:24:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2015-03-16T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:24:49","slug":"does-this-guy-fit-into-the-punk-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8605","title":{"rendered":"Does this guy fit into the &#039;punk&#039; category?"},"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>Jeremy Williams is now at the center of a controversy that doesn&#8217;t seem set to fade away.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been arrested in connection with the shooting of two white police officers in Ferguson, Mo., a community beset with racial tension since the shooting death of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson; Brown was a young African-American man, while Wilson is a white former Ferguson cop.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Man, 20, Is Arrested in the Shooting of 2 Officers in Ferguson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F03%2F16%2Fus%2Fsuspect-arrested-in-shooting-of-2-officers-in-ferguson-police-say.html#?secret=qZNBCWGeyA\" data-secret=\"qZNBCWGeyA\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now comes Jeremy Williams. He&#8217;s black. He all but admitted to shooting the police officers, both of whom suffered non-life-threatening wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217;s defense? He was shooting at someone else, not the officers.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, here&#8217;s another thing: The young man is on probation for receiving stolen property. He&#8217;s not supposed to be carrying a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder described whoever shot the officers as a &#8220;punk.&#8221;\u00a0Jeremy Williams appears to fit that description. Yes, there may be a whole host of extenuating circumstances that have led this young man to take the wrong path into adulthood. \u201cThis arrest sends a clear message that acts of violence against our law enforcement personnel will never be tolerated,\u201d\u00a0Holder said.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, as a prosecutor said after announcing the young man&#8217;s arrest, it doesn&#8217;t matter one bit whether he intended to shoot the officers or was aiming at someone else, he&#8217;s been accused of committing a Class A felony.<\/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>Jeremy Williams is now at the center of a controversy that doesn&#8217;t seem set to fade away. He&#8217;s been arrested in connection with the shooting of two white police officers in Ferguson, Mo., a community beset with racial tension since the shooting death of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson; Brown was a young African-American man, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8605\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does this guy fit into the &#039;punk&#039; category?<\/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":[1261,1617,1719,2444,3019,3806],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-darren-wilson","tag-eric-holder","tag-ferguson-mo","tag-jeremy-williams","tag-michael-brown","tag-racial-unrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","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=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}