{"id":6519,"date":"2011-04-06T06:32:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2011-04-06T06:32:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:32:42","slug":"and_now_everyone_thinks_youre_racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/04\/and_now_everyone_thinks_youre_racist.html","title":{"rendered":"And Now Everyone Thinks You&#8217;re Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supposedly tried-and-true tactics for avoiding jury duty &#8212; claiming you&#8217;re racist and that you never trust the cops, for example &#8212; can sometimes backfire, leading to even more jury duty, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/westshore\/index.ssf\/2011\/04\/rx_in_peace_staten_island_coup.html\">public scorn in the Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An incensed federal judge sentenced a racist Brooklyn woman to indefinite jury duty on Tuesday after she trashed the NYPD and minorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an outrage, and so are you!&#8221; Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis told the woman, holding up her bile-filled juror questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>It is not unheard of for people to try to get out of jury service by making ridiculous statements concerning their views.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear Tuesday whether that was this woman&#8217;s motive.<\/p>\n<p>And if it was, it didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the woman was going to be seeing a lot of Brooklyn Federal Court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s coming back [today], Thursday and Friday &#8212; and until the future, when I am ready to dismiss her,&#8221; Garaufis said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supposedly tried-and-true tactics for avoiding jury duty &#8212; claiming you&#8217;re racist and that you never trust the cops, for example &#8212; can sometimes backfire, leading to even more jury duty, as well as public scorn in the Post: An incensed federal judge sentenced a racist Brooklyn woman to indefinite jury duty on Tuesday after she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,40,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6520,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions\/6520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}