{"id":9239,"date":"2013-08-10T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:20:59","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9239","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker: SWAT-Team Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/comment\/2013\/08\/swat-team-nation.html\">SWAT-Team Nation<\/a> by Sarah Stillman:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The moment the assault rifles surrounded her, Angie Wong was standing in a leafy art-gallery courtyard with her boyfriend, a lawyer named Paul Kaiser. It was just past 2 A.M., in May, 2008. Wong was twenty-two years old and was dressed for an evening out, in crisp white jeans, a white top, and tall heels that made it difficult not to wobble. The couple had stopped by a regular event hosted by the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID), a red brick gallery with the aim of \u201cturning Detroit into a model city,\u201d and arrived to find a tipsy, jubilant scene: inside, gallerygoers were looking at art and dancing to a d.j.; outside, on the patio, several young women were goofily belting out the lyrics to \u201cHakuna Matata,\u201d from \u201cThe Lion King\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase.<br \/>\nIt means no worries for the rest of your days.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s our problem-free philosophy. Hakuna Matata!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only then did masked figures with guns storm the crowd, shouting, \u201cGet on the fucking ground! Get down, get down!\u201d (I document the basic details of what happened in my story, in this week\u2019s magazine, about the police\u2019s use and abuse of civil-asset-forfeiture laws.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9239\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}