{"id":146315,"date":"2015-04-23T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/target\/cops-kill-man-for-refusing-to-id-as-he-dropped-off-stray-cat-to-animal-shelter-police-remain-silent\/"},"modified":"2015-04-24T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T03:23:13","slug":"cops-kill-man-for-refusing-to-id-as-he-dropped-off-stray-cat-to-animal-shelter-police-remain-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/cops-kill-man-for-refusing-to-id-as-he-dropped-off-stray-cat-to-animal-shelter-police-remain-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops Kill Man for Refusing to ID as He Dropped Off Stray Cat to Animal Shelter, Police Remain Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\">In late December of 2014, Robert Earl Lawrence, 30, in an act of compassion, took a stray cat to the Dothan Animal Shelter. What was a seemingly selfless act of kindness would subsequently end with Lawrence being fatally gunned down by a cop.<\/p>\n<p>Almost four months after that fateful day, police have provided the public with no more answers than were given the day after the killing. They have maintained a blanket of virtual silence surrounding the incident. As we reported previously , the staff at the shelter, rather than simply accepting the cat, proceeded to demand that Lawrence show government issued identification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[quote_right]<a title=\"Cops Gone Wild - Police Brutality in America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsforfreedom.com\/Cops-Gone-Wild-Police-Brutality-in-America-p\/2218.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn3.volusion.com\/xfg5p.pfrs6\/v\/vspfiles\/photos\/2218-1.jpg?1425566292\" alt=\"Cops Gone Wild - Police Brutality in America\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a class=\"productnamecolor colors_productname\" title=\"Cops Gone Wild - Police Brutality in America - DVD, 2218\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsforfreedom.com\/Cops-Gone-Wild-Police-Brutality-in-America-p\/2218.htm\">Cops Gone Wild &#8211; Police Brutality in America &#8211; DVD<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/quote_right]<\/p>\n<p>Per shelter policy, they demanded Lawrence show ID, prior to being allowed to leave, according to information released by police immediately after the shooting. Lawrence showed them a notarized legal identification in the form of an affidavit, rather than the standard Department of Motor Vehicle issued ID card.<\/p>\n<p>In what would prove to be a fatal move, shelter employees refused to accept his form of ID and called the police.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/man-killed-refusing-id-dropping-stray-cat-animal-shelter-4-months-answers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late December of 2014, Robert Earl Lawrence, 30, in an act of compassion, took a stray cat to the Dothan Animal Shelter. What was a seemingly selfless act of kindness would subsequently end with Lawrence being fatally gunned down by a cop. Almost four months after that fateful day, police have provided the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146315","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\/146315","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=146315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}