{"id":592,"date":"2006-11-28T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T07:00:04","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta shooting case gets curiouser and curiouser; Police covering up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todays AJC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/content\/metro\/atlanta\/stories\/2006\/11\/27\/1127metshoot_html.html\">Informant in shooting says he never bought drugs at house \/ He says police asked him to lie<\/a>, by Rhonda Cook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An informant who narcotics officers say led them to the house where an elderly woman was killed in a drug raid is accusing the officers of asking him to lie about his role, Atlanta police Chief Richard Pennington said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The informant, who has not been identified, complained to department officials that the drug investigators involved in the bust had asked him to go along with a story they concocted after the shooting, said Pennington. He said the informant had been placed in protective custody.<\/p>\n<p>The informant told an Atlanta television station that the officers asked him to lie to provide them cover in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Pennington confirmed the television station&#8217;s account of what the informant had claimed and said it mirrored what the informant had told his Internal Affairs Unit over the weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/28\/nyregion\/28shoot.html?ei=5094&amp;en=20a135cccb2bda67&amp;hp=&amp;ex=1164776400&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;partner=homepage&amp;adxnnlx=1164718825-HBl+Q2XxwuAsaBniRTxyeQ\">NYC shooting case<\/a>, the Mayor&#8217;s comments seemed to assume excessive force, while officers and &#8220;experts&#8221; are rallying around the officers, all before the facts are in.  The Queens DA is planning a grand jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evGMco.b2evALnk.b2WPAutP.b2evSmil <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=592\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}