{"id":2102,"date":"2014-11-26T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2014-11-26T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T00:42:12","slug":"the-case-for-police-reform-is-much-bigger-than-michael-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Police Reform Is Much Bigger Than Michael Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But even protesters who want to highlight the specific problem of white police officers shooting black men\u2014even those who want to do so by saying &#8220;don&#8217;t shoot&#8221; while raising their arms in the air\u2014needn&#8217;t rely on a murky incident with conflicting eyewitness testimony where there&#8217;s a chance that the unknowable truth would exonerate the officer. Instead, they can show skeptics this video from Columbia, South Carolina:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-XFYTtgZAlE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/11\/the-case-for-police-reforms-is-much-bigger-than-michael-brown\/383210\/\">The Case for Police Reform Is Much Bigger Than Michael Brown &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But even protesters who want to highlight the specific problem of white police officers shooting black men\u2014even those who want to do so by saying &#8220;don&#8217;t shoot&#8221; while raising their arms in the air\u2014needn&#8217;t rely on a murky incident with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}