{"id":158383,"date":"2015-06-10T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=158383"},"modified":"2015-06-10T16:54:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:54:26","slug":"ron-paul-slams-militarization-us-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ron-paul-slams-militarization-us-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul slams militarization of US police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Former US congressman Ron Paul has condemned the militarization of police departments in the United States after a video showed police officers attacked a group of black teenagers in Texas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video released on YouTube last week showed white police officer Eric Casebolt drew his gun at teenagers during a pool party in McKinney.<\/p>\n<p>He also grabbed a black teenage girl by the hair and wrestled her to the ground to handcuff her. The officer sat on the 14-year-old bikini-clad girl in an effort to prevent her from standing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest problem right now is the militarization of the police because that seems to be a culture,\u201d Paul said during his program, Ron Paul Liberty Report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was watching that video\u2026 I thought where are these policemen? Don\u2019t they even turn on the news? Don\u2019t they know what people are thinking? Why would they do this and pulling a gun? It\u2019s the militarization of the police which is the consequence of other problems,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/10\/415218\/Ron-Paul-militarization-US-police\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US congressman Ron Paul has condemned the militarization of police departments in the United States after a video showed police officers attacked a group of black teenagers in Texas. The video released on YouTube last week showed white police officer Eric Casebolt drew his gun at teenagers during a pool party in McKinney. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158383","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":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158383","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}