{"id":10352,"date":"2019-12-15T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2019-12-17T12:32:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:32:21","slug":"the-chicago-crusader-on-queen-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/15\/the-chicago-crusader-on-queen-slim\/","title":{"rendered":"The  Chicago Crusader on QUEEN &#038; SLIM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocrusader.com\/black-lives-matter-themes-on-full-blast-in-queen-slim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Chicago Crusader (opens in a new tab)\">from The Chicago Crusader<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Black Lives Matter themes on full blast in \u2018Queen &amp; Slim\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chicagocrusader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/GET-TICKETS-QUEEN-AND-SLIM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90696\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQueen &amp; Slim\u201d is a story about a Black couple on the run who find themselves in an\u00a0untenable position shortly after their first date. They are driving along and Slim had briefly passed his cell phone to Queen. She starts being nosey, as some women are wont to do, and he snatches the phone, causing the car to swerve a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, of course, seconds later, a Cleveland, Ohio, police officer stops the car. The cop\u2019s initial reason for stopping Slim was no signal at a previous turn and that he suspected that Slim was under the influence. The \u201cno turn signal\u201d excuse made me think immediately of the late Sandra Bland, the Naperville, Illinois, woman who met her death at the hands of Texas police officers after a similar traffic stop\u2014although they claimed that Bland committed suicide. An argument ensues, and Queen, who is a criminal defense attorney, questions the officer after he trains his gun on Slim. The officer shoots Queen in the leg, and Slim kills the officer, setting in motion their run from authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocrusader.com\/black-lives-matter-themes-on-full-blast-in-queen-slim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at The Chicago Crusader (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at The Chicago Crusader<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Chicago Crusader Black Lives Matter themes on full blast in \u2018Queen &amp; Slim\u2019 By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J. \u201cQueen &amp; Slim\u201d is a story about a Black couple on the run who find themselves in an\u00a0untenable position shortly after their first date. They are driving along and Slim had briefly passed his cell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}