{"id":29022,"date":"2017-09-01T19:31:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T00:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29022"},"modified":"2017-09-16T19:34:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T00:34:58","slug":"above-the-law-issue-spotter-how-many-cops-need-to-be-fired-based-on-these-facts-if-you-answer-one-you-fail-you-are-part-of-the-problem-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29022","title":{"rendered":"Above the Law: Issue Spotter: How Many Cops Need To Be Fired Based On These Facts? If you answer &#8216;one,&#8217; you fail. YOU are part of the problem. a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Above the Law: <a href=\"http:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2017\/09\/how-many-cops-need-to-go\/\">Issue Spotter: How Many Cops Need To Be Fired Based On These Facts?<br \/>\nIf you answer &#8216;one,&#8217; you fail. YOU are part of the problem.<\/a><br \/>\nBy Elie Mystal<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are going to be a lot of calls today to fire Detective Jeff Payne. Payne was caught on a body camera harassing, assaulting, and arresting a nurse in Utah who refused to let him violate the Fourth Amendment. Payne wanted to draw blood from an unconscious, badly burned hospital patient, without a warrant. Nurse Alex Wubbels told him \u201cno,\u201d then start sobbing as Payne did what cops do when they don\u2019t get their way.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Alex Wubbels is white so we can nationally agree that Wubbels was blameless and just doing her job. A black nurse would be told that she was \u201crude\u201d or \u201cuppity\u201d to the officer and, while \u201ctechnically correct\u201d about the law, she got what she probably deserved.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, the Washington Post frames Payne\u2019s actions like this: &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above the Law: Issue Spotter: How Many Cops Need To Be Fired Based On These Facts? If you answer &#8216;one,&#8217; you fail. YOU are part of the problem. By Elie Mystal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29022","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=29022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29023,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29022\/revisions\/29023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}