{"id":95527,"date":"2020-09-24T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=95527"},"modified":"2020-09-24T06:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T10:40:01","slug":"npr-2-louisville-police-officers-shot-after-charges-in-breonna-taylor-case-spark-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=95527","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) 2 Louisville Police Officers Shot After Charges In Breonna Taylor Case Spark Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief said that under the tense circumstances following the indictment by the grand jury Wednesday, he is &#8220;very concerned for the safety of [his] officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of protesters swiftly began demonstrations calling for justice for Breonna Taylor after a grand jury decided to indict just one of the three Louisville Metropolitan Police officers who fired nearly two dozen bullets into her apartment, killing the 26-year-old during a no-knock raid.<\/p>\n<p>City and state officials, who have been expecting a decision from the grand jury all week after months of outrage and anticipation, were braced for widespread protests, preemptively calling for reinforcements from the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice\/2020\/09\/23\/916334798\/louisville-police-officer-shot-as-protests-erupt-after-charges-in-breonna-taylor\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New story on NPR: 2 Louisville Police Officers Shot After Charges In Breonna Taylor Case Spark Protests <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vws4Pd5hXF\">https:\/\/t.co\/vws4Pd5hXF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Todd S. Stewart (@ToddSStewart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToddSStewart\/status\/1309037151925960705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief said that under the tense circumstances following the indictment by the grand jury Wednesday, he is &#8220;very concerned for the safety of [his] officers.&#8221; Hundreds of protesters swiftly began demonstrations calling for justice for Breonna Taylor after a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=95527\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,175,168,114,578,120,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-policefire","category-racerace-relations","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95530,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95527\/revisions\/95530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}