{"id":103765,"date":"2014-01-06T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/durham-n-c-examines-policies-governing-police-use-of-tasers-excessive-force\/"},"modified":"2014-01-07T00:38:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:38:01","slug":"durham-n-c-examines-policies-governing-police-use-of-tasers-excessive-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/durham-n-c-examines-policies-governing-police-use-of-tasers-excessive-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham, N.C. examines policies governing police use of Tasers, excessive force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Blythe<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2014\/01\/05\/3509046\/durham-re-examines-policy-on-taser.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Durham Police Department has faced many vexing questions recently in the court of public opinion, from queries about a teen who died in custody to complaints of racial profiling and accusations of excessive force.<\/p>\n<p>One of those topics \u2014 allegations of excessive force and the department&#8217;s policy on when, where and how to use Taser stun guns \u2014 has spilled over to the courts.<\/p>\n<p>A recent ruling in a Taser-use case, filed by Bryan DeBaun against Officer Daniel J. Kuszaj and the city of Durham, has buoyed civil rights advocates and others fighting for more limits on the device.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2014\/01\/05\/3509046\/durham-re-examines-policy-on-taser.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Blythe The Durham Police Department has faced many vexing questions recently in the court of public opinion, from queries about a teen who died in custody to complaints of racial profiling and accusations of excessive force. One of those topics \u2014 allegations of excessive force and the department&#8217;s policy on when, where and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}