{"id":47,"date":"2017-02-23T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-02-23T11:47:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:47:15","slug":"manufacturing-criminality-how-law-enforcement-creates-its-own-justification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/2017\/02\/23\/manufacturing-criminality-how-law-enforcement-creates-its-own-justification\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Criminality: How Law Enforcement Creates Its Own Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Trump\u2019s First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened At Knifepoint By Murtaza Hussain, TheIntercept.com(Feb. 22, 2017 5:36pm) THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE proudly announced the first FBI terror arrest of the the Trump administration on Tuesday: An elaborate sting operation that snared a 25-year old Missouri man who had no terrorism contacts besides the two undercover FBI agents who paid him to buy hardware supplies they said was for a bomb \u2014 and who at one point pulled a knife on him and threatened his family.Robert Lorenzo Hester of Columbia, Missouri, didn\u2019t have the $20 he needed to buy the 9-volt batteries, duct tape, and roofing nails his new FBI friends wanted him to get, so they gave him the money. The agents noted in a criminal complaint that Hester, who at one point brought his two small children to a meeting because he didn\u2019t have child care, continued smoking marijuana despite professing to be a devout Muslim. http:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/?p=47\" href=\"http:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-content\/gallery\/news-snippets-2017\/20170222_1736-Trump%E2%80%99s-First-Terror-Arrest-A-Broke-Stoner-The-FBI-Threatened-At-Knifepoint-Intercept.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"1\" data-src=\"http:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-content\/gallery\/news-snippets-2017\/20170222_1736-Trump%E2%80%99s-First-Terror-Arrest-A-Broke-Stoner-The-FBI-Threatened-At-Knifepoint-Intercept.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-content\/gallery\/news-snippets-2017\/thumbs\/thumbs_20170222_1736-Trump%E2%80%99s-First-Terror-Arrest-A-Broke-Stoner-The-FBI-Threatened-At-Knifepoint-Intercept.jpg\" data-title=\"20170222_1736 Trump\u2019s First Terror Arrest A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened At Knifepoint (Intercept) by PublicChronicle.com\" data-description=\"Trump\u2019s First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened At Knifepoint By Murtaza Hussain, TheIntercept.com(Feb. 22, 2017 5:36pm) THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE proudly announced the first FBI terror arrest of the the Trump administration on Tuesday: An elaborate sting operation that snared a 25-year old Missouri man who had no terrorism contacts besides the two undercover FBI agents who paid him to buy hardware supplies they said was for a bomb \u2014 and who at one point pulled a knife on him and threatened his family.Robert Lorenzo Hester of Columbia, Missouri, didn\u2019t have the $20 he needed to buy the 9-volt batteries, duct tape, and roofing nails his new FBI friends wanted him to get, so they gave him the money. The agents noted in a criminal complaint that Hester, who at one point brought his two small children to a meeting because he didn\u2019t have child care, continued smoking marijuana despite professing to be a devout Muslim. http:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/?p=47\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-content\/gallery\/news-snippets-2017\/thumbs\/thumbs_20170222_1736-Trump%E2%80%99s-First-Terror-Arrest-A-Broke-Stoner-The-FBI-Threatened-At-Knifepoint-Intercept.jpg\" alt=\"Manufacturing Crime: Trump\u2019s First Terror Arrest A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened At Knifepoint (Intercept) by PublicChronicle.com\"><\/a>Manufacturing Criminality: How Law Enforcement Creates Its Own&nbsp;Justice<\/p>\n<p>(Feb. 23, 2017 10:00 a.m.) The recent article published Wednesday by <a href=\"http:\/\/TheIntercept.com\" target=\"_new\">TheIntercept.com <\/a>(excerpt below) demonstrates how law enforcement &nbsp;manufactures its own criminal products by sprinkling in their own special ingredients into their tax payer funded activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened At Knifepoint<\/p>\n<p>By Murtaza Hussain, TheIntercept.com<\/p>\n<p>(Feb. 22, 2017 5:36pm) THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE proudly announced the first FBI terror arrest of the the Trump administration on Tuesday: An elaborate sting operation that snared a 25-year old Missouri man who had no terrorism contacts besides the two undercover FBI agents who paid him to buy hardware supplies they said was for a bomb \u2014 and who at one point pulled a knife on him and threatened his family.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Lorenzo Hester of Columbia, Missouri, didn\u2019t have the $20 he needed to buy the 9-volt batteries, duct tape, and roofing nails his new FBI friends wanted him to get, so they gave him the money. The agents noted in a criminal complaint that Hester, who at one point brought his two small children to a meeting because he didn\u2019t have child care, continued smoking marijuana despite professing to be a devout Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/02\/22\/trumps-first-terror-arrest-a-broke-stoner-the-fbi-threatened-at-knifepoint\/\" target=\"_new\">Read more<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing Criminality: How Law Enforcement Creates Its Own&nbsp;Justice (Feb. 23, 2017 10:00 a.m.) The recent article published Wednesday by TheIntercept.com (excerpt below) demonstrates how law enforcement &nbsp;manufactures its own criminal products by sprinkling in their own special ingredients into their tax payer funded activities. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Excerpt: Trump\u2019s First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stoner The FBI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65,31],"tags":[50,51,57,52,55,54,53,56,58],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-justice-system","category-in-the-news","category-news-and-politics","tag-50","tag-department-of-justice","tag-entrapment","tag-fbi","tag-in-the-news","tag-robert-lorenzo","tag-terror-arrests","tag-theintercept","tag-undercover-fbi-agents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicchronicle.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}