{"id":167000,"date":"2015-07-20T19:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T19:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=167000"},"modified":"2015-07-20T19:46:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T19:46:47","slug":"protesters-demand-justice-black-man-killed-police-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/protesters-demand-justice-black-man-killed-police-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters demand justice for black man killed by police in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A large crowd of people have gathered at a park in Stonewall, Mississippi to protest the death of Jonathan Sanders, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The furious crowd on Sunday kept shouting \u201cNo justice, no peace!\u201d and threatened to boycott the local business to show their frustration with the inaction by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters marched a mile to Stonewall Police Department and were addressed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People president and the mothers of Sanders\u2019 two kids.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, 39, was a horse trainer who was approached on the night of July 8 by 25-year-old officer Kevin Harrington.<\/p>\n<p>According to witnesses, the cop confronted Sanders after being heard saying \u201cI\u2019m going to get that nigger!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then approached Sanders and reportedly proceeded to fatally strangle the man by holding him in a chokehold for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses also confirmed that Sanders remained cooperative during the whole incident and the excessive amount of force by the officer was uncalled for.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy found that \u201cmanual asphyxiation\u201d was the cause of death and law enforcement agencies have informed the victim\u2019s family that the death was indeed a homicide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/07\/20\/421025\/Protest-death-US-black-man-Jonathan-Sanders-Mississippi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large crowd of people have gathered at a park in Stonewall, Mississippi to protest the death of Jonathan Sanders, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer. The furious crowd on Sunday kept shouting \u201cNo justice, no peace!\u201d and threatened to boycott the local business to show their frustration with the inaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-167000","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\/167000","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=167000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}