{"id":200271,"date":"2021-05-23T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/23\/support-your-local-police-20\/"},"modified":"2021-05-23T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T00:03:00","slug":"support-your-local-police-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/23\/support-your-local-police-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Your Local Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief rundown on police misconduct in the news recently.<\/p>\n<p>William Jennette was suffocated by prison officers, and when he said he could not breath, one officer replied, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/05\/21\/william-jennette-tennessee-jail-death-video\/\">You shouldn\u2019t be able to breathe, you stupid bitch<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recently released police dashcam and body cam video has revealed that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/21\/us\/ronald-greene-video-louisiana.html\">Louisiana State Troopers beat Ronald Greene to death<\/a> (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/19\/us\/Ronald-Greene-Louisiana-State-Police.html\">here<\/a>).&nbsp; They then refused to make a report to the coroner and told the family that he had died in a car crash.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, we have the Springfield, Illinois cops who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/05\/21\/dartavius-barnes-daughters-ashes-mixup\/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">confiscated and spilled a man&#8217;s daughter&#8217;s ashes  claiming that they contained drugs<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thin blue line, my ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief rundown on police misconduct in the news recently. William Jennette was suffocated by prison officers, and when he said he could not breath, one officer replied, &#8220;You shouldn\u2019t be able to breathe, you stupid bitch.&#8221; Recently released police dashcam and body cam video has revealed that, Louisiana State Troopers beat Ronald Greene &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}