{"id":16209,"date":"2015-03-04T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16209"},"modified":"2015-03-04T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:47:21","slug":"wapo-justice-dept-concludes-that-no-michael-browns-hands-were-probably-not-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16209","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Justice Dept. concludes that no, Michael Brown\u2019s hands were probably not up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2015\/03\/04\/justice-dept-concludes-that-no-michael-browns-hands-were-probably-not-up\/?tid=hpModule_9d3add6c-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e&#038;hpid=z11\">Justice Dept. concludes that no, Michael Brown\u2019s hands were probably not up<\/a> by Wesley Lowery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In one of two reports released by the Department of Justice on Wednesday, federal investigators opted against charging Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson with a federal crime for the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>That report comes on the same day that the Justice Department unleashed a scathing review of the Ferguson Police Department which concluded that even if the Brown case was not racially motivated, the department utilized racially discriminatory tactics and that police supervisors used taxpayer-funded email to send racist jokes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Justice Dept. concludes that no, Michael Brown\u2019s hands were probably not up by Wesley Lowery: In one of two reports released by the Department of Justice on Wednesday, federal investigators opted against charging Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson with &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16209\">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-16209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209","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=16209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16210,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209\/revisions\/16210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}