{"id":12468,"date":"2014-07-08T10:31:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:31:57","slug":"wapo-meet-jason-westcott-your-latest-needless-inexcusable-drug-war-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12468","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Meet Jason Westcott, your latest, needless, inexcusable drug war casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/07\/07\/meet-jason-westcott-your-latest-needless-inexcusable-drug-war-casualty\/\">Meet Jason Westcott, your latest, needless, inexcusable drug war casualty<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Add another body to the drug war pile. From the Tampa Bay Times, here is the story of the death of Jason Westcott.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who had partied at Westcott\u2019s home was plotting to rob him. An itinerant motorcycle mechanic, Westcott didn\u2019t have much \u2014 two televisions and a handgun that once belonged to his brother were perhaps the most valuable possessions in his 600-square-foot house in Seminole Heights \u2014 but he was terrified by his would-be intruder\u2019s threats to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>Police tracked down the suspect and warned him to stay away. Westcott, those close to him said, was left with a word of advice from the investigating officers: If anyone breaks into this house, grab your gun and shoot to kill.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of May 27, as armed men streamed through his front door, Westcott grabbed his gun. But the 29-year-old didn\u2019t have a chance to shoot before he died in a volley of gunfire. And those who killed him weren\u2019t robbers.<\/p>\n<p>They were police officers from the same agency he had enlisted to protect his home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Meet Jason Westcott, your latest, needless, inexcusable drug war casualty by Radley Balko: Add another body to the drug war pile. From the Tampa Bay Times, here is the story of the death of Jason Westcott. A man who &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12468\">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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468","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=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12469,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions\/12469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}