{"id":29592,"date":"2017-10-07T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29592"},"modified":"2017-10-07T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T15:02:34","slug":"wapo-an-innocent-man-lost-his-spleen-after-police-shot-him-during-a-drug-raid-the-courts-and-city-government-say-tough-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29592","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: An innocent man lost his spleen after police shot him during a drug raid. The courts and city government say tough luck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2017\/10\/06\/an-innocent-man-lost-his-spleen-after-police-shot-him-during-a-drug-raid-the-courts-and-city-government-say-tough-luck\/?utm_term=.1145e5f42ed4\">An innocent man lost his spleen after police shot him during a drug raid. The courts and city government say tough luck<\/a> by Radley Balko:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In August 2011, a SWAT team in Binghamton, N.Y., conducted an early morning drug raid. As one of the officers took a battering ram to the door, Jesus Ferreira was sleeping on the couch. Ferreira wasn\u2019t a suspect. He happened to be visiting. Within seconds, one officer shot him, claiming that Ferriera was \u201cmoving toward him\u201d and had something in his hand. Ferreira suffered significant injuries, and doctors later had to remove his spleen.<\/p>\n<p>No one disputes that Ferreira was unarmed. But the police claim he had a video-game controller in his hand, which the officer who shot him mistook for a gun. Ferreira and his lawyers say that he was sleeping at the time of the raid, that he raised his hands when the police entered and that they put the controller in his hand after the fact to retroactively justify the shooting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: An innocent man lost his spleen after police shot him during a drug raid. The courts and city government say tough luck by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29592","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=29592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29593,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29592\/revisions\/29593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}