{"id":27200,"date":"2017-05-18T05:05:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27200"},"modified":"2017-05-18T05:09:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:09:01","slug":"techdirt-appeals-court-pretty-sure-doj-use-of-force-guidelines-dont-violate-police-officers-2nd-and-4th-amendment-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27200","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Appeals Court Pretty Sure DOJ Use-Of-Force Guidelines Don&#8217;t Violate Police Officers&#8217; 2nd And 4th Amendment Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20170509\/18094537330\/appeals-court-pretty-sure-doj-use-of-force-guidelines-dont-violate-police-officers-2nd-4th-amendment-rights.shtml\">Appeals Court Pretty Sure DOJ Use-Of-Force Guidelines Don&#8217;t Violate Police Officers&#8217; 2nd And 4th Amendment Rights<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few years ago, some Seattle police officers came up with a novel plan to battle DOJ-imposed limits on their use-of-force. Since their union wisely decided to steer clear of this ridiculous legal battle, the officers chose to crowdfund their way into the federal court system.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with a little over $3,000 and some particularly dubious arguments, the protesting cops filed a lawsuit claiming their Second and Fourth Amendment rights were being violated by the DOJ&#8217;s use-of-force restrictions. It did not go well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Appeals Court Pretty Sure DOJ Use-Of-Force Guidelines Don&#8217;t Violate Police Officers&#8217; 2nd And 4th Amendment Rights by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27200","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=27200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27204,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27200\/revisions\/27204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}