{"id":200911,"date":"2015-11-17T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=200911"},"modified":"2015-11-17T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T20:35:10","slug":"california-police-beating-prompts-call-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/california-police-beating-prompts-call-criminal-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"California police beating prompts call for criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Video footage showing two police officers in the US state of California viciously beating a surrendering suspect has prompted two public defenders to call for criminal charges against the officers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A surveillance video uploaded on YouTube on Friday shows 26-year-old Stanislav Petrov running into an alley in San Francisco before he slows and is tackled by two Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies.<\/p>\n<p>The two law enforcement officers can then be seen punching and hitting him with batons at least three dozen times as he screams.<\/p>\n<p>Petrov can be seen trying to stand, surrendering and shielding himself from the blows.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods called the beating &#8220;disgusting&#8221; and said it reminded him of the 1991 police beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/11\/17\/438052\/video-police-Stanislav-Petrov-Alameda-County--\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video footage showing two police officers in the US state of California viciously beating a surrendering suspect has prompted two public defenders to call for criminal charges against the officers. A surveillance video uploaded on YouTube on Friday shows 26-year-old Stanislav Petrov running into an alley in San Francisco before he slows and is tackled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-200911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200911","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=200911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}