{"id":154457,"date":"2015-05-26T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=154457"},"modified":"2015-05-26T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:05:02","slug":"us-police-use-disproportionate-force-us-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-police-use-disproportionate-force-us-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"US police use of \u2018disproportionate\u2019 force against US blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Use of \u201cdisproportionate\u201d force against African Americans by US police has led to a \u201cwild wild west\u201d situation in the United States, says a political scientist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wilmer Leon, political scientist and SiriusXM satellite radio host, made the comments in a Monday interview with Press TV regarding the acquittal of a white police officer in the 2012 shooting deaths of an unarmed black couple in the US.<\/p>\n<p>An Ohio judge announced on Saturday that the decision to use deadly force by Officer Michael Brelo, 31, was reasonably justifiable in the deaths of 43-year-old Timothy Russell and 30-year-old Malissa Williams in November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>According to Judge John P. O&#8217;Donnell, there was no evidence Brelo was solely responsible for the couple&#8217;s deaths, as their fatal gunshot wounds came from multiple directions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/25\/412847\/us-blacklivesmatter-protest-human-rights-michael-brelotimothy-russell\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of \u201cdisproportionate\u201d force against African Americans by US police has led to a \u201cwild wild west\u201d situation in the United States, says a political scientist. Wilmer Leon, political scientist and SiriusXM satellite radio host, made the comments in a Monday interview with Press TV regarding the acquittal of a white police officer in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154457","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=154457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}