{"id":341392,"date":"2017-12-28T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cops-killing-kids-has-got-to-stop\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T12:15:47","slug":"cops-killing-kids-has-got-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cops-killing-kids-has-got-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops Killing Kids Has Got to Stop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_98565\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98565\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-27-at-10.06.59-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"338\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Matty Ring | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kameron Prescott is dead\u00a0\u2014 the latest in a horrific string of children killed by America\u2019s fearful and quick-to-shoot law enforcement professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Six-year-old Kameron, who was shot in Bexar County outside San Antonio, Texas, wasn\u2019t killed like Tamir Rice in Cleveland, who was mowed down by a police officer within seconds of his arrival on the scene as the boy sat peacefully on a bench in a park pavilion holding a toy gun. Kameron wasn\u2019t deliberately shot. He was just \u201ccollateral damage\u201d in America\u2019s militarized police war on the public \u2014 killed inadvertently by a deputy\u2019s bullet which had missed its intended target (an unarmed woman), instead penetrating the flimsy wall of the trailer and the soft abdomen of the little kid who was playing peacefully by himself inside.<\/p>\n<p>The reason Kameron had his all too short life cut brutally short was because some deputy\u00a0\u201cfeared for his life.\u201d\u00a0 What the shooter feared was 30-year-old Amanda Jones, whom he had been reportedly chasing for two hours through the woods and a deep stream after having interrupted her allegedly trying to break into a car. According to news reports, halfway through the long pursuit, Jones had been found by police hiding in a closet in a mobile home she had broken into to. They claimed she had \u201cbrandished a gun,\u201d though inexplicably, she had managed to escape them and run off again.<\/p>\n<p>When the\u00a0Bexar County sheriff\u2019s deputies \u2014 four of them by then&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/12\/28\/cops-killing-kids-has-got-to-stop\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Matty Ring | CC BY 2.0 Kameron Prescott is dead\u00a0\u2014 the latest in a horrific string of children killed by America\u2019s fearful and quick-to-shoot law enforcement professionals. Six-year-old Kameron, who was shot in Bexar County outside San Antonio, Texas, wasn\u2019t killed like Tamir Rice in Cleveland, who was mowed down by a police [&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-341392","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\/341392","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=341392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}