{"id":4182,"date":"2013-11-16T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:10","slug":"detroit-suburb-police-terrorize-demean-african-american-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/detroit-suburb-police-terrorize-demean-african-american-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit suburb police terrorize &#038; demean African American men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/detroit-suburb-police-terrorize-demean-african-american-men\/man-harrassed-by-detroit-police\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4183\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Man-harrassed-by-Detroit-police.png\" alt=\"Man harrassed by Detroit police\" width=\"425\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Man-harrassed-by-Detroit-police.png 425w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Man-harrassed-by-Detroit-police-225x133.png 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Man-harrassed-by-Detroit-police-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a>Police are harassing African American men in a Detroit suburb, and investigative journalist Steve Neavling has video clips and a photo of the abuse. <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcitymuckraker.com\/2013\/11\/15\/grosse-pointe-opens-internal-investigation-cops-racist-videos\/mcmuckraker\">Neavling reports<\/a> in his blog, Motor City Muckraker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most of the videos are shot from squad cars while African American men are told to sing or \u201cdance like a chimp.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Huffington Post received a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/15\/grosse-pointe-park-police_n_4276868.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000038\">statement from Grosse Pointe Park Police Captain<\/a> David Loch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Thursday, November 14 2013, the Grosse Pointe Park Public Safety Department was contacted by an individual who said that he was in possession of video clips and a photo of African American males. The video clips and photo are allegedly made by an officer of this department. The department has begun an internal investigation of this matter. The Grosse Pointe Park Public Safety Department does not tolerate unprofessional conduct by its officers when interacting with any citizen they may come in contact with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are harassing African American men in a Detroit suburb, and investigative journalist Steve Neavling has video clips and a photo of the abuse. Neavling reports in his blog, Motor City Muckraker. &#8220;Most of the videos are shot from squad cars while African American men are told to sing or \u201cdance like a chimp.\u201d The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/detroit-suburb-police-terrorize-demean-african-american-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Detroit suburb police terrorize &#038; demean African American men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1082,563,565],"tags":[706,1318,1101],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-dei","category-justice","category-rich-v-poor","tag-abuse","tag-detroit","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4186,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}