{"id":17886,"date":"2015-07-03T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17886"},"modified":"2015-07-03T13:16:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:16:23","slug":"wapo-these-videos-of-a-texas-police-shooting-show-how-body-cameras-can-vindicate-good-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17886","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: These videos of a Texas police shooting show how body cameras can vindicate good cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/07\/02\/these-videos-of-a-texas-police-shooting-show-how-body-cameras-can-vindicate-good-cops\/\">These videos of a Texas police shooting show how body cameras can vindicate good cops<\/a> by Radley Balko: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two disturbing videos below depict the fatal police shooting of James Bushey, 47, of Elkhart, Tex. The videos are taken from the body cameras of two officers with the Palestine, Tex., police department.<\/p>\n<p>Bushey was suspected of stealing some alcohol from a local Wal-Mart. The videos depict Sgt. Gabriel Green calmly and non-aggressively confronting Bushey in the bathroom of an Applebee\u2019s restaurant. He and Officer Kaylynn Griffin then escort him outside the restaurant. Bushey then pulls a BB gun pistol from his pocket and points it at the officers. They then open fire and kill him. By all appearances, this shooting looks both justified and unavoidable. Judging by the local newspaper account of the shooting, Bushey was likely attempting suicide-by-cop. It\u2019s really the only explanation for why he\u2019d knowingly pull a non-lethal gun on two police officers armed with guns that shoot actual bullets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: These videos of a Texas police shooting show how body cameras can vindicate good cops by Radley Balko: The two disturbing videos below depict the fatal police shooting of James Bushey, 47, of Elkhart, Tex. The videos are taken &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17886\">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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886","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=17886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17888,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886\/revisions\/17888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}