{"id":40373,"date":"2015-03-10T01:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T01:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40373"},"modified":"2015-03-10T13:20:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T13:20:32","slug":"wisconsin-chief-treading-carefully-after-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40373","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/police-chief-veteran-officer-shot-unarmed-19-year-old\/2015\/03\/07\/bcd7320a-c529-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shooting<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-08<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madison,_Wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\">MADISON, Wis.<\/a> \u2014 Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed black man, the police chief of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin\u2019s<\/a> capital city was praying with the man\u2019s grandmother, hoping to strike a conciliatory tone and avoid the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2014_Ferguson_unrest\" target=\"_blank\">riots that last year rocked Ferguson, Missouri<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Mike Koval said he knows Madison is being watched across the nation since 19-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Tony_Robinson\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Robinson\u2019s death<\/a> Friday evening, and he has gone out of his way to avoid what he once called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson\u2019s<\/a> \u201cmissteps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFolks are angry, resentful, mistrustful, disappointed, shocked, chagrined. I get that,\u201d Koval said Saturday. \u201cPeople need to tell me squarely how upset they are with the Madison Police Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The contrasts with Ferguson are many&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/police-chief-veteran-officer-shot-unarmed-19-year-old\/2015\/03\/07\/bcd7320a-c529-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shooting The Washington Post 2015-03-08 The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. \u2014 Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed black man, the police chief of Wisconsin\u2019s capital city was praying with the man\u2019s grandmother, hoping to strike a conciliatory tone and avoid the riots that last year rocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20],"tags":[2822,19560,19562,19565,19574,8569,2875,19563,2581,5661],"class_list":["post-40373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-associated-press","tag-madison","tag-michael-c-koval","tag-michael-koval","tag-mike-koval","tag-the-associated-press","tag-the-washington-post","tag-tony-robinson","tag-washington-post","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}