{"id":13976,"date":"2012-04-16T16:52:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13976"},"modified":"2012-04-16T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:38:05","slug":"miami-dade-fire-captain-on-trayvon-case-blame-shtbag-parents-of-our-urban-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13976","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade Fire Captain On Trayvon Case: Blame &#8216;Sh*Tbag&#8217; Parents Of &#8216;Our Urban Youth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami-Dade Fire-Rescue Department is investigating a Facebook post by one of its captains that seems to blame the shooting death of <strong>Trayvon Martin<\/strong> on the &#8220;shi*tbag parents&#8221; of &#8220;our urban youth,&#8221; and the &#8220;ghetto hoodie look&#8221; of young black men like <strong>Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The entry was posted on the personal Facebook page of Miami-Dade fire captain <strong>Brian Beckmann<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The page&#8217;s profile entry lists Metro-Dade Firefighters Local 1403.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state seeks reelection again, truth aside. I and my coworkers could rewrite the book on whether our urban youths are victims of racist profiling or products of their failed, sh*tbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare dependent excuses for parents, but like <strong>Mrs. Corey<\/strong>, we speak only the truth. They&#8217;re just misunderstood little church going angels and the ghetto hoodie look doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with why people wonder if they&#8217;re about to get jacked by a thug.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beckmann<\/strong> responded to questions about the page in a Facebook message, saying, &#8220;I am a private citizen and have the same right to freely express an opinion on any subject that anyone else does. I choose not to embellish or alter the facts as your employer chose to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami-Dade Fire-Rescue Department is investigating a Facebook post by one of its captains that seems to blame the shooting death of Trayvon Martin on the &#8220;shi*tbag parents&#8221; of &#8220;our urban youth,&#8221; and the &#8220;ghetto hoodie look&#8221; of young black men like Martin. The entry was posted on the personal Facebook page of Miami-Dade fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}