{"id":12928,"date":"2014-08-15T09:36:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12928"},"modified":"2014-08-15T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T14:39:27","slug":"nytimes-in-wake-of-clashes-calls-to-demilitarize-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12928","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: In Wake of Clashes, Calls to Demilitarize Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/15\/us\/ferguson-missouri-in-wake-of-clashes-calls-to-demilitarize-police.html?_r=0\">In Wake of Clashes, Calls to Demilitarize Police<\/a> by Julie Bosman and Matt Apuzzo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FERGUSON, Mo. \u2014 For four nights in a row, they streamed onto West Florissant Avenue wearing camouflage, black helmets and vests with \u201cPOLICE\u201d stamped on the back. They carried objects that doubled as warnings: assault rifles and ammunition, slender black nightsticks and gas masks.<\/p>\n<p>They were not just one police force but many, hailing from communities throughout north St. Louis County and loosely coordinated by the county police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comment:<\/strong> My view? The entire Ferguson PD is staffed with idiots pointing guns at people protesting with their hands up? Shades of Kent State. They were asking for trouble, or an excuse to shoot unarmed citizens. What have we become with the militarized police? War against our own citizens? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: In Wake of Clashes, Calls to Demilitarize Police by Julie Bosman and Matt Apuzzo: FERGUSON, Mo. \u2014 For four nights in a row, they streamed onto West Florissant Avenue wearing camouflage, black helmets and vests with \u201cPOLICE\u201d stamped on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12928\">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-12928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928","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=12928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12931,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928\/revisions\/12931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}