{"id":28302,"date":"2017-07-29T20:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T01:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28302"},"modified":"2017-07-29T21:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T02:06:31","slug":"wapo-u-s-police-chiefs-blast-trump-for-endorsing-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28302","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: U.S. police chiefs blast Trump for endorsing \u2018police brutality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/07\/29\/u-s-police-chiefs-blast-trump-for-endorsing-police-brutality\/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_pn-policechiefs-435pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.bbfe22731206\">U.S. police chiefs blast Trump for endorsing \u2018police brutality\u2019<\/a> by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. &#038; Mark Berman:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police departments across the country moved quickly to denounce President Trump&#8217;s comments condoning \u201croughing up\u201d people who have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The swift public denunciations came as departments are under intense pressure to stamp out brutality and excessive force that can erode the relationship between officers and the people they police \u2014 and cost police chiefs their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Some police leaders worried that three sentences uttered by the president during a Long Island, N.Y., speech could upend nearly three decades of fence-mending since the 1991 Los Angeles Police Department beating of Rodney King ushered in an era of distrust of police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The prior post is just <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28292\">two down<\/a> <strong>\u21d3<\/strong>. [Was working on the book supplement today.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: U.S. police chiefs blast Trump for endorsing \u2018police brutality\u2019 by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. &#038; Mark Berman:<\/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-28302","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\/28302","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=28302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28307,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28302\/revisions\/28307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}