{"id":162,"date":"2006-10-05T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/10\/05\/deadly-defiance\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T23:58:00","slug":"deadly-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/10\/05\/deadly-defiance\/","title":{"rendered":"deadly defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6220\/1576\/1600\/284453SDC.1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6220\/1576\/200\/284453SDC.1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>the <em>new york times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/05\/nyregion\/05kill.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1160064114-rr50+CaVelzjQ9mETsW1KA&amp;pagewanted=print\">features a story today <\/a>that a mugging victim&#8217;s attitude led to her death. anemona hartocllis reports from the defendant&#8217;s trial: &#8220;It wasn\u2019t the color of her skin, or the amount of money in her purse, the mugger said, but the victim\u2019s attitude \u2014 her insouciance, defiance and disdain that made the mugger\u2019s accomplice shoot the actress, 28-year-old Nicole duFresne, once in the chest, killing her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>you may remember this case. in january, 2005, two couples were mugged by a group of seven youths. now, the youngest of these youths is testifying against the leader who pulled the trigger and killed nicole dufresne. tatiana mcdonald, now 16, testified that ms. dufresne taunted rudy fleming, the 19-year-old leader of the pack, going eye to eye with him and shouting: \u201cWhat are you going to do, you going to shoot us? Is that what you wanted?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>apparently mr. fleming got so angry that he responded to the challenge by shooting ms. dufresne at very close range and killing her. her friends, who apparently kept quiet, were not shot.<\/p>\n<p>so what&#8217;s the message here? i guess if you end up in a dangerous situation like this one, you don&#8217;t want to taunt your mugger. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Code-Street-Decency-Violence-Inner\/dp\/0393040232\/sr=1-2\/qid=1160074419\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/104-4372020-8383114?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">code of the street <\/a>may demand a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the new york times features a story today that a mugging victim&#8217;s attitude led to her death. anemona hartocllis reports from the defendant&#8217;s trial: &#8220;It wasn\u2019t the color of her skin, or the amount of money in her purse, the mugger said, but the victim\u2019s attitude \u2014 her insouciance, defiance and disdain that made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}