{"id":4201,"date":"2002-07-29T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-29T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/07\/29\/"},"modified":"2002-07-29T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-29T21:55:00","slug":"4201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/07\/29\/4201\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is not an overstatement to describe the arrests in Tulia as an atrocity. The entire operation was the work of a single police officer who claimed to have conducted an 18-month undercover operation. The arrests were made solely on the word of this officer, Tom Coleman, a white man with a wretched work history, who routinely referred to black people as &#8220;niggers&#8221; and who frequently found himself in trouble with the law.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/07\/29\/opinion\/29HERB.html\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">New York Times | Kafka in Tulia<\/a><br \/>\nMore here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=611\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Color of Justice <\/a> and here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=719\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Round Two in Tulia <\/a><br \/>\nJesus. Welcome to the 21st century ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Best British Blog award&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not taking part in this, I never even considered it. Even if I ran an in anyway readable decent blog I still wouldn&#8217;t even think about. The contraversy going on around it however has been interesting and this to and fro between some interested and involved parties is interesting. Check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/internetnews\/story\/0,7369,765160,00.html\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Guardian Unlimited | Weblog competition a &#8216;bloody stupid idea&#8217;? <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is not an overstatement to describe the arrests in Tulia as an atrocity. The entire operation was the work of a single police officer who claimed to have conducted an 18-month undercover operation. The arrests were made solely on the word of this officer, Tom Coleman, a white man with a wretched work history, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/07\/29\/4201\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}