{"id":6128,"date":"2010-01-06T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T01:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2010-01-06T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T01:05:52","slug":"some-thoughts-about-the-danville-police-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/06\/some-thoughts-about-the-danville-police-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts about the Danville police shooting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you&#8217;ve heard that a Danville police officer shot &amp; killed a suspect who pointed a gun at him. Let&#8217;s talk about it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.godanriver.com\/gdr\/news\/local\/danville_news\/article\/danville_police_investigating_officer_involved_shooting\/16810\" target=\"_blank\">Man dies following officer-involved shooting in Danville<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesson that should be learned but probably won&#8217;t be: Point a gun at a police officer and you will be shot and probably killed.<\/li>\n<li>As it looks now (and probably will be), the police officer was 100% justified in taking the action that he did. Danville&#8217;s police officers are trained very well and this officer did exactly what he was trained to do. This isn&#8217;t a racial issue and I&#8217;m waiting to see if the Usual RacePimp Suspects are going to try and start any type of protest or &#8220;call for investigation&#8221; or any other race-baiting.<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s see if this incident sparks a &#8220;Take Back The Neighborhood&#8221; movement not just in this area of the city but all of Danville.<\/li>\n<li>One of the TV stations blocked out the face of somebody that was willing to go on camera. Today, I heard one comment that said &#8220;Already snitchin&#8217;, somebody gonna recognize the t-shirt she had on and know who she was.&#8221; Sigh.. how disgusting of an attitude.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Add your own thoughts here in the comment section!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you&#8217;ve heard that a Danville police officer shot &amp; killed a suspect who pointed a gun at him. Let&#8217;s talk about it.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danville","category-newscentral","category-opinioncentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-1AQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4266,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/17\/lets-talk-about-the-danville-dog-shooting\/","url_meta":{"origin":6128,"position":0},"title":"Let&#8217;s talk about the Danville dog shooting.","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"June 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Adam Tomer changed my opinion on it last night. By now, everybody's heard about the Danville police officer that shot a miniature dachshund and the public outrage. SouthsideCentral attended Chief Broadfoot's first press conference on the matter and thought he handled it well. He had no choice but to support\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4595,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/10\/happy-trails-murrill-mclean\/","url_meta":{"origin":6128,"position":1},"title":"Happy Trails, Murrill McLean!","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"July 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Danville police officer that shot and killed the dachshund a month ago has lost his job. 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