{"id":17022,"date":"2016-01-24T20:56:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=17022"},"modified":"2020-10-09T15:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:45:28","slug":"perp-walk-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/perp-walk-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Perp walk politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"I know I have lost\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/monkeymagic\/369890509\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/154\/369890509_ccdd83dc42.jpg?resize=500%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"I know I have lost\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Sarah Galasko (cc)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the most hated man in America \u2013 Martin Shkreli \u2013 was arrested on securities fraud charges, I thought to myself that I bet there is a politico-performance element to it.<\/p>\n<p>What are the chances that this hate figure just happens to come to the attention of the federal authorities shortly after making himself widely &#8220;hated&#8221; for increasing the price of a drug he owns by 700%?<\/p>\n<p>What are the chances that Reuters just happened to be there when he was arrested?!<\/p>\n<p>Turns out I am not alone in wondering this, from <a href=\"https:\/\/popehat.com\/2015\/12\/17\/an-open-letter-to-reuters-reporters-nate-raymond-and-david-ingram\/\">Popehat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/popehat.com\/2013\/04\/09\/misconduct-is-only-news-when-journalists-say-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Based on my experience with perp-walked clients<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/popehat.com\/2015\/12\/17\/an-open-letter-to-reuters-reporters-nate-raymond-and-david-ingram\/\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>, I think the more likely scenario is that a government agent responsible for investigating and prosecuting Mr. Shkreli tipped Reuters off about the arrest \u2014 that someone told Reuters to be there to catch the perp walk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If Reuters was there through independent investigation, then good for them. But if Reuters was there because of a tip from law enforcement, then I&#8217;d like to ask a couple of questions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>There are two subjects on which Reuters could have informed its audience, two sets of questions it could have answered:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Subject One:<\/em><\/strong> Who leaked the time and place of the arrest? Was it an FBI agent, a prosecutor, staff, a coordinating local cop? How high up in the government did the decision to leak the arrest go? Did the leak violate the law? Did it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/02\/AR2006060201060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violate the defendant&#8217;s rights?<\/a> What was the government&#8217;s purpose in leaking the time and place of the arrest? How does this instance fit into the pattern of which arrests get leaked and which don&#8217;t? Which nonviolent defendants without records get arrested, and which get summonsed in (or self-surrender through arrangement with their lawyers), and why? What impact does a front-page picture of a defendant in handcuffs have on the jury pool? Is that impact a feature, or a bug, of leaking it? Was the leak intended to inflict extra-judicial humiliation and punishment on the defendant? <a href=\"https:\/\/popehat.com\/2007\/11\/08\/leaks-and-journalistic-self-interest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If the government lies about whether or not it leaked,<\/a> would you still keep it secret?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Subject Two:<\/em><\/strong> What would Martin Shkreli look like being led away in handcuffs?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>It seems Reuters chose to address the second subject.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The authorities are want to look good by going after this hate figure. I believe there probably is a case to answer, but I also think there are large dollops of &#8220;extra-judicial humiliation and punishment&#8221; being dropped on the defendant.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"https:\/\/popehat.com\/2015\/12\/17\/an-open-letter-to-reuters-reporters-nate-raymond-and-david-ingram\/\">https:\/\/popehat.com\/2015\/12\/17\/an-open-letter-to-reuters-reporters-nate-raymond-and-david-ingram\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the most hated man in America \u2013 Martin Shkreli \u2013 was arrested on securities fraud charges, I thought to myself that I bet there is a politico-performance element to it. What are the chances that this hate figure just happens to come to the attention of the federal authorities shortly after making himself widely &#8230; <a title=\"Perp walk politics\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/perp-walk-politics\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Perp walk politics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-17022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-4qy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}