{"id":18247,"date":"2015-08-01T11:49:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T16:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18247"},"modified":"2015-08-01T11:49:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T16:49:49","slug":"wapo-radley-balkos-the-watch-blog-alabama-case-fills-out-the-police-brutality-bingo-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18247","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Alabama case fills out the police brutality bingo card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/07\/31\/alabama-case-fills-out-the-police-brutality-bingo-card\/\">Alabama case fills out the police brutality bingo card<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This story out of Huntsville, Ala., reads like a checklist of police brutality cases.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Excessive force? Check. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Coverup by fellow officers? Check. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fears of retaliation for violating the blue code of silence? Check. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Falsified police reports that are contradicted by video and other evidence? Check. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Abusive cop who was allowed to return to the force? Check. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution by federal officials only after local officials let the officer off? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Officer still collecting paychecks while on trial for federal civil rights violations? And &#8230; check.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Alabama case fills out the police brutality bingo card: This story out of Huntsville, Ala., reads like a checklist of police brutality cases. Excessive force? Check. &#8230; Coverup by fellow officers? Check. &#8230; Fears &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18247\">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":[52,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247","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=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18248,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions\/18248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}