{"id":289079,"date":"2017-01-08T02:36:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T01:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-judge-refuses-to-let-facebook-live-torturers-go\/"},"modified":"2017-01-08T02:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T01:36:55","slug":"us-judge-refuses-to-let-facebook-live-torturers-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-judge-refuses-to-let-facebook-live-torturers-go\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge refuses to let Facebook live torturers go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An American judge in the city of Chicago refuses to set free four African Americans accused of torturing a mentally disabled white boy as captured by a cell phone and released live via Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil was perplexed Friday over how the four could resort to such &#8220;terrible actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The graphic video, which showed the beating and torturing of the18-year-old along with profanities against white people and US President-elect Donald Trump, was viewed millions of times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where was your sense of decency?&#8221; asked the judge, refusing to let them post bail and leave jail.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects have been identified as Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, both of Chicago, and Jordan Hill, of suburban Carpentersville, all with 18 years of age. A fourth suspect was identified as Covington&#8217;s 24-year-old sister, Tanishia Covington, also from Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>One of the assailants captured the video and streamed it on Facebook live.<\/p>\n<p>The four also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/08\/505277\/Facebook-live-torturers-ordered-to-stay\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American judge in the city of Chicago refuses to set free four African Americans accused of torturing a mentally disabled white boy as captured by a cell phone and released live via Facebook. Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil was perplexed Friday over how the four could resort to such &#8220;terrible actions.&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289079","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=289079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}