{"id":2657,"date":"2008-10-10T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T17:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/darren-white-cannot-represent-us\/"},"modified":"2008-10-10T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T17:08:37","slug":"darren-white-cannot-represent-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/darren-white-cannot-represent-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren White Cannot Represent Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Activist Has Lived Life Always Speaking Her Mind\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/upfront\/101034133116upfront10-10-08.htm\">ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Activist Has Lived Life Always Speaking Her Mind<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/cgi-bin\/email_reporter.pl?staff=yes\">By Joline Gutierrez Krueger<\/a><br \/>Journal Staff Writer <\/p>\n<p>For the record:<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>I&#8217;ll give Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White the benefit of the doubt<\/strong> and assume that his response Monday to my Sept. 26 column on a North Valley family who sued his department and four of his deputies for excessive use of force <strong>was written for purely political purposes and not to deliberately mislead readers<\/strong>. <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In truth, I did not miss a second of the testimony on the deputies&#8217; side of the case, and I researched hundreds of pages of records and documents presented by both sides \u2014 far more than what the jury got to see. <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To have requested comment from the Sheriff&#8217;s Department while the case was ongoing would have been inappropriate, unnecessary and likely to only produce the ubiquitous &#8220;we cannot comment on pending litigation&#8221; quote. White knows this. <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I also did not &#8220;laugh and talk&#8221; with the family, though I did have a chuckle with the deputies in the court elevator. <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>I have no problem with those who disagree with me, but if you&#8217;re going to insult my credibility for political purposes, it&#8217;s always nice to have the facts straight.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Activist Has Lived Life Always Speaking Her Mind\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/upfront\/101034133116upfront10-10-08.htm\">ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Activist Has Lived Life Always Speaking Her Mind<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Activist Has Lived Life Always Speaking Her Mind&nbsp; By Joline Gutierrez KruegerJournal Staff Writer For the record:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#8217;ll give Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White the benefit of the doubt and assume that his response Monday to my Sept. 26 column on a North Valley family who sued his department and four of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/darren-white-cannot-represent-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Darren White Cannot Represent Us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}