{"id":16266,"date":"2015-03-07T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16266"},"modified":"2015-03-07T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T18:17:08","slug":"nytimes-holder-weighs-dismantling-the-ferguson-police-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16266","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Holder Weighs Dismantling the Ferguson Police Dept."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/07\/us\/two-ferguson-police-supervisors-linked-to-racist-emails-resign.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\">Holder Weighs Dismantling the Ferguson Police Dept.<\/a> by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Richard Perez-Pe\u00f1a:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. vowed a firm response on Friday to what he called \u201cappalling\u201d racial misconduct by law enforcement officials in Ferguson, Mo., suggesting he was prepared to seek the dismantling of the police force there if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are prepared to use all the powers that we have, all the power that we have, to ensure that the situation changes there,\u201d Mr. Holder told reporters here after returning from Columbia, S.C., where he appeared with President Obama at a town hall-style meeting at Benedict College. \u201cThat means everything from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Holder Weighs Dismantling the Ferguson Police Dept. by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Richard Perez-Pe\u00f1a: WASHINGTON \u2014 Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. vowed a firm response on Friday to what he called \u201cappalling\u201d racial misconduct by law enforcement officials &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16266\">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-16266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266","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=16266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16267,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266\/revisions\/16267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}