{"id":139686,"date":"2014-09-24T20:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139686"},"modified":"2014-09-25T18:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:29:51","slug":"cop-dont-want-get-hurt-dont-challenge-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/cop-dont-want-get-hurt-dont-challenge-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop: If You Don&#8217;t Want To Get Hurt, Don&#8217;t Challenge Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>LAPD cop says the people they stop are equally responsible for making sure things don&#8217;t end tragically.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Terrell Jermaine Starr<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Los Angeles Police Department officer says that the people they stop are just as responsible for ensuring that things don&#8217;t turn ugly as the officers are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/08\/19\/im-a-cop-if-you-dont-want-to-get-hurt-dont-challenge-me\/\">In a recent <em>Washington Post<\/em> column<\/a>, Sunil Dutta said that people misunderstand the role police officers have in society and exaggerate the motives behind why officers use force to respond to those they detain. He says police officers aren&#8217;t killers who wake up with the intent to shoot and kill people. Dutta recalls the times he &#8220;withstood curses, screaming tantrums, aggressive and menacing encroachments on my safety zone, and outright challenges to my authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But this is the most powerful point he makes in his piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don\u2019t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don\u2019t argue with me, don\u2019t call me names, don\u2019t tell me that I can\u2019t stop you, don\u2019t say I\u2019m a racist pig, don\u2019t threaten that you\u2019ll sue me and take away my badge. Don\u2019t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don\u2019t even <em>think<\/em>\u00a0of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/cop-if-you-dont-want-get-hurt-dont-challenge-us\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAPD cop says the people they stop are equally responsible for making sure things don&#8217;t end tragically. Terrell Jermaine Starr A Los Angeles Police Department officer says that the people they stop are just as responsible for ensuring that things don&#8217;t turn ugly as the officers are. In a recent Washington Post column, Sunil Dutta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}