{"id":145167,"date":"2015-03-27T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=145167"},"modified":"2015-03-27T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:32:08","slug":"hospitality-ambassador-violently-beats-homeless-man-to-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/hospitality-ambassador-violently-beats-homeless-man-to-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hospitality Ambassador\u2019 Violently Beats Homeless Man To The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violent footage\u00a0emerged on Thursday that appears to show a hospitality ambassador for a Berkeley downtown business association attacking a homeless man, who was blamed for the incident and later charged with a count of misdemeanor battery.<\/p>\n<p>John Caner, CEO of the Downtown Berkeley Association (DBA), which coordinates the ambassador program, apologized on Thursday for the incident, and said the ambassador who appears to punch the homeless man had been fired.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"_sQ8nNr03cU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Berkeley Ambassador Punches Homeless Man\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_sQ8nNr03cU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A second hospitality ambassador who failed to intervene has been suspended, pending an investigation, Caner said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the association was \u201cshocked by this totally unacceptable egregious behavior, that runs completely contrary to the extensive training, protocols, and mission of hospitality and outreach of our ambassadors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs CEO of the Downtown Berkeley Association, I want to personally, and on the behalf of the DBA board and staff, apologize to the victim of this beating, and the entire Berkeley community,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Caner said the ambassadors reported the incident, as instructed, but that they had said that their actions were taken in \u201cself-defense\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/03\/video-shows-berkeley-homeless-man-punched-in-the-face-by-hospitality-ambassador\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent footage\u00a0emerged on Thursday that appears to show a hospitality ambassador for a Berkeley downtown business association attacking a homeless man, who was blamed for the incident and later charged with a count of misdemeanor battery. John Caner, CEO of the Downtown Berkeley Association (DBA), which coordinates the ambassador program, apologized on Thursday for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news","10":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145167","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=145167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}