{"id":3714,"date":"2014-08-14T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2014-08-14T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:48:51","slug":"im-having-a-hard-time-not-being-outraged-by-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3714","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m having a hard time not being outraged by this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/08\/14\/crews-hit-with-bean-bags-tear-gas\/14042747\/\">Under what circumstances would this be considered okay by anyone?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I first heard &#8220;journalists hit with tear gas&#8221; my assumption was that it was, for lack of a better description, an embedded journalist in the middle of a crowd during the riot. I&#8217;ve seen that kind of thing before, particularly journalists of the local-alt-weekly variety. In one local case, the only way to know the guy was a journalist was to have known who he was beforehand&#8211;he carried no credentials and had only his iPhone as a recording device.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s clearly not the case here. This is a professional camera crew <i>not in the vicinity of anyone else<\/i>. This is obvious, and cannot be explained away by any sort of benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n<p>This is stuff I&#8217;d expect out of Iran, not St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under what circumstances would this be considered okay by anyone? When I first heard &#8220;journalists hit with tear gas&#8221; my assumption was that it was, for lack of a better description, an embedded journalist in the middle of a crowd during the riot. I&#8217;ve seen that kind of thing before, particularly journalists of the local-alt-weekly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officer-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}