{"id":16047,"date":"2012-10-03T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=16047"},"modified":"2012-10-03T15:42:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:42:36","slug":"video-police-brutality-video-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/multimedia\/video-police-brutality-video-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Police brutality video goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/world\/20121003\/176371248.html\" target=\"_blank\">RIA Novosti<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p>More than 800,000 people have viewed the \u201cPhiladelphia Police Brutality\u201d video of a uniformed officer hitting a woman in the face this week, and police there said Tuesday they too would be taking a close look.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternal Affairs is conducting an investigation,\u201d Philadelphia Police Department spokesman Lt. Ray Evers said. He identified the officer on the tape as Lt. Jonathan Josey, a 19-year veteran of the force who has been hailed as a hero in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred after a parade on Sunday when officers stopped a motorist at an impromptu neighborhood celebration. Some in the crowd threw liquid on the officers, and Josey turned to confront a woman who may have been involved.<\/p>\n<p>He is seen on the tape hitting her in the face, and moments later, the woman\u2019s mouth appears to be bloody. She was cited on the scene for disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The video of the incident was posted on YouTube shortly after it occurred on Sunday and it quickly went viral.<br \/>\nJosey has been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Fn0mrdmXZI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Fn0mrdmXZI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIA Novosti | More than 800,000 people have viewed the \u201cPhiladelphia Police Brutality\u201d video of a uniformed officer hitting a woman in the face this week, and police there said Tuesday they too would be taking a close look. \u201cInternal Affairs is conducting an investigation,\u201d Philadelphia Police Department spokesman Lt. Ray Evers said. He identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-16047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-multimedia","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047","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=16047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}