{"id":50098,"date":"2021-10-31T05:54:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T10:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50098"},"modified":"2021-10-31T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T11:06:22","slug":"nyt-why-many-police-traffic-stops-turn-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50098","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Pulled Over: Why Many Police Traffic Stops Turn Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/31\/us\/police-traffic-stops-killings.html\">Pulled Over: Why Many Police Traffic Stops Turn Deadly<\/a> by David D. Kirkpatrick, Steve Eder, Kim Barker and Julie Tate (&#8220;Officers, trained to presume danger, have reacted with outsize aggression. For hundreds of unarmed drivers, the consequences have been fatal.&#8221;):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cOpen the door now, you are going to get shot!\u201d an officer in Rock Falls, Ill., shouted at Nathaniel Edwards after a car chase.<\/p><p>\u201cHands out the window now or you will be shot!\u201d yelled a patrolman in Bakersfield, Calif., as Marvin Urbina wrestled with inflated airbags after a pursuit ended in a crash.<\/p><p>\u201cI am going to shoot you \u2014 what part of that don\u2019t you understand?\u201d threatened an officer in Little Rock, Ark., adding a profanity, as she tried to pry James Hartsfield from his car.<\/p><p>The police officers who issued those warnings had stopped the motorists for common offenses: swerving across double yellow lines, speeding recklessly, carrying an open beer bottle. None of the men were armed. Yet within moments of pulling them over, officers fatally shot all three.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: Pulled Over: Why Many Police Traffic Stops Turn Deadly by David D. Kirkpatrick, Steve Eder, Kim Barker and Julie Tate (&#8220;Officers, trained to presume danger, have reacted with outsize aggression. For hundreds of unarmed drivers, the consequences have been &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50098\">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-50098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50098","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=50098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50103,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50098\/revisions\/50103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}