{"id":19205,"date":"2013-02-28T09:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19205"},"modified":"2013-02-28T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:51:31","slug":"the-headline-really-does-say-it-all-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/the-headline-really-does-say-it-all-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The headline really <em>does<\/em> say it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon, my former virtual landlord, sent me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/crime\/2013\/02\/26\/black_police_officer_faces_charges_for_not_investigating_racial_taunts_against_himself.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article in the <em>Toronto Star<\/em><\/a>. I&#8217;m just gobsmacked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Black police officer faces charges for not investigating racial taunts against himself<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>A black York Regional Police officer faces misconduct charges for his handling of a farm party turned ugly, when he was allegedly subjected to repeated racial taunts and told, \u201cI would love to see that guy hanging from a tree.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A black York Region officer faces Police Act charges for not investigating racial taunts thrown at him when he was called to a bush party.<\/p>\n<p>Const. Dameian Muirhead, 33, is charged with three counts of misconduct for his handling of a farm party turned ugly, where he was allegedly subjected to repeated racial slurs and told, \u201cI would love to see that guy hanging from a tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Muirhead, an eight-year veteran, was charged with insubordination and discreditable conduct over the way he allegedly investigated the party on the Victoria Day long weekend in May 2011. A partygoer lodged the complaint, saying he was rudely treated \u2014 but Muirhead also faces a neglect of duty charge for failing to properly investigate the racial remarks.<\/p>\n<p>A police disciplinary hearing which began Tuesday was told that Muirhead and other officers were sent to the party after a woman was seriously injured when run over by an off-road vehicle.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon, my former virtual landlord, sent me a link to this article in the Toronto Star. I&#8217;m just gobsmacked: Black police officer faces charges for not investigating racial taunts against himself A black York Regional Police officer faces misconduct charges for his handling of a farm party turned ugly, when he was allegedly subjected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[52,98,99],"class_list":["post-19205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","tag-absurd","tag-police","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4ZL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19206,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19205\/revisions\/19206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}