{"id":825,"date":"2009-09-04T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2009-09-04T13:03:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T17:03:05","slug":"they-shot-him-right-there-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/04\/they-shot-him-right-there-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They shot him. Right there in court.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2009\/09\/04\/just-wait-until-you-see-how-they-execute-a-search-warrant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radley Balko<\/a> links to the weirdest &#8220;cops gone wild&#8221; story I&#8217;ve encountered in quite a while:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn&#8217;t hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and their speed traps.<\/p>\n<p>The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Note also the fascinating fact that there are 7 police officers watching over a population of 174 people. That&#8217;s an amazing level of &#8220;protection&#8221; those folks are getting.<\/p>\n<p>Original story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090903\/ap_on_re_us\/us_shot_in_court\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Bonus story from Radley&#8217;s site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2009\/09\/04\/feds-bust-doctor-for-meeting-women-on-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feds bust doctor for . . . meeting women on the internet<\/a>. Amazing. Just freakin&#8217; amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radley Balko links to the weirdest &#8220;cops gone wild&#8221; story I&#8217;ve encountered in quite a while: It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn&#8217;t hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and [&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":[9],"tags":[98,239],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","tag-police","tag-scary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}