{"id":4480,"date":"2011-05-23T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2011-05-23T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:57:24","slug":"4480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4480","title":{"rendered":"The saga of Maurice Pierce."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/statesman_focus\/man-linked-to-austin-yogurt-shop-slayings-was-1490087.html?viewAsSinglePage=true\"><strong>Statesman<\/strong> profile of Maurice Pierce finally ran on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My feeling is that the <strong>Statesman <\/strong>glosses over a few things. Yes, Pierce may not have been guilty of the murders, but what was a 16-year-old doing carrying a pistol at the mall?<\/p>\n<p>And why did Pierce react so violently to traffic stops? He was arrested in 2006 for not paying three minor traffic tickets issued in 2003, he punched someone in a traffic altercation in 2007 (and was fined $200 on a disorderly conduct charge), he got into an altercation with a cop in Plano after being pulled over for doing 70 in a 40 (this led to charges of aggravated assault on a public servant and evading arrest), and the final incident that led to his death started as a traffic stop for running a stop sign.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/statesman_focus\/man-linked-to-austin-yogurt-shop-slayings-was-1490087.html?viewAsSinglePage=true\">&#8220;Maurice stated that he hates cops and that he did not want to go to prison,&#8221; the report said.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the possible exception of the Plano incident, which Pierce escalated, nothing on his rap sheet would have led to prison.<\/p>\n<p>So what was his major malfunction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited Statesman profile of Maurice Pierce finally ran on Sunday. My feeling is that the Statesman glosses over a few things. Yes, Pierce may not have been guilty of the murders, but what was a 16-year-old doing carrying a pistol at the mall? And why did Pierce react so violently to traffic stops? He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,105,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-cops","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}