{"id":11481,"date":"2014-05-08T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11481"},"modified":"2014-05-08T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T17:45:19","slug":"the-atlantic-23-police-officers-fire-377-bullets-at-two-men-with-zero-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11481","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic: 23 Police Officers Fire 377 Bullets at Two Men With Zero Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2014\/05\/23-police-officers-fire-377-bullets-at-2-men-with-0-guns\/361904\/\">23 Police Officers Fire 377 Bullets at Two Men With Zero Guns<\/a> by Conor Friedersdorf:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve long proposed a simple rule: police officers who shoot unarmed innocents should have their guns taken away. They can work desk jobs or monitor meters. But if nothing else, they shouldn&#8217;t ever be in a position to put lives in danger again.<\/p>\n<p>Applying that rule in Miami would have dramatic consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The local CBS affiliate has investigated a police shooting that happened there last December. The results are jaw-dropping. A man who committed armed robbery and shot a police officer hours earlier was spotted in his automobile, along with a passenger who played no role in his crime. Police officers gave chase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: 23 Police Officers Fire 377 Bullets at Two Men With Zero Guns by Conor Friedersdorf: I&#8217;ve long proposed a simple rule: police officers who shoot unarmed innocents should have their guns taken away. They can work desk jobs &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11481\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11482,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions\/11482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}