{"id":12096,"date":"2014-06-18T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12096"},"modified":"2014-06-18T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:48:47","slug":"nyt-as-justice-department-scrutinizes-local-police-cleveland-is-latest-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12096","title":{"rendered":"NYT: As Justice Department Scrutinizes Local Police, Cleveland Is Latest Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/18\/us\/justice-department-examining-local-police-turns-focus-to-cleveland.html?ref=us&#038;_r=0\">As Justice Department Scrutinizes Local Police, Cleveland Is Latest Focus<\/a> by Erik Eckholm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CLEVELAND \u2014 As cries of \u201cshots fired\u201d shrieked from police radios, a caravan that grew to 62 patrol cars chased an old blue Malibu through 20 miles of this city\u2019s streets and highways. The vehicle and its two occupants were surrounded in a school lot, and in a disorienting jumble of sirens and strobes, officers fired 137 rounds at close range.<\/p>\n<p>When the shooting stopped that night in November 2012, a man and a woman, both African-American, were dead, riddled with bullets in the car\u2019s front seat. There was no evidence that either had a gun. Investigations suggested that they had set out to purchase crack cocaine in a car that apparently backfired as it passed an officer, and then panicked when the police tried to pull them over.<\/p>\n<p>Late last month, one officer was indicted on manslaughter charges and five supervisors were charged with criminal dereliction of duty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: As Justice Department Scrutinizes Local Police, Cleveland Is Latest Focus by Erik Eckholm: CLEVELAND \u2014 As cries of \u201cshots fired\u201d shrieked from police radios, a caravan that grew to 62 patrol cars chased an old blue Malibu through 20 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12096\">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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12097,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions\/12097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}