{"id":608,"date":"2007-01-03T05:54:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T22:59:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T22:59:46","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"In Atlanta shooting case, the police called for help for themselves and not their shooting victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Journal-Constitutional reported Sunday in the SWAT shooting case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/search\/content\/metro\/atlanta\/stories\/2006\/12\/02\/1203metshottape.html\">Police recording reveals urgency after shooting<\/a>. The press finally got the tapes after an open records request.  The officers appear concerned for themselves and not for the elderly person they shot during the drug raid.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a clear sense of urgency in their voices on the recorded conversations, and moments of brief shouting can be heard as officers work to coordinate their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>About eight minutes after the initial call for help, a dispatcher repeatedly asks about the condition of the wounded officers. In response, another officer lists their injuries, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;ve got one in the arm, one in the leg, one in the shoulder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are many references to the wounded officers, but little talk of Johnston. Officers refer to her as a &#8220;perp,&#8221; or perpetrator. There were no calls for medical assistance for Johnston, who was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe they already knew she was dead, but the article mentions nothing about her condition.  <\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the police fraternity would be more concerned for the fellow officers that were shot than the person they shot.  The fact she fired a gun at them was reason enough to ignore her bullet wounds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evGMco.b2evALnk.b2WPAutP.b2evSmil <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=608\">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-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}