{"id":83225,"date":"2015-12-24T19:41:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T03:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83225"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:22:52","slug":"lat-just-before-christmas-black-lives-matter-protests-roil-cities-across-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83225","title":{"rendered":"LAT: Just before Christmas, Black Lives Matter protests roil cities across the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Do minorities wreaking havoc ever consider that one day the silent majority will wake up and decide not to put up with this nonsense anymore?<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Times<\/a>: Demonstrators protesting police shootings of black men confronted last-minute holiday shoppers and travelers in California and the Midwest this week, seeing the crowds as an opportunity to draw attention to their cause.<\/p>\n

In Chicago on Thursday, more than 100 demonstrators marched down North Michigan Avenue, the city’s premier shopping corridor, and laid down on the street for a “die-in.” They also blocked access to some stores where Christmas Eve shoppers were hoping to wrap up their tardy gift-buying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do minorities wreaking havoc ever consider that one day the silent majority will wake up and decide not to put up with this nonsense anymore? Los Angeles Times: Demonstrators protesting police shootings of black men confronted last-minute holiday shoppers and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,29733],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-diversity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151285,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83225\/revisions\/151285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}