{"id":538,"date":"2012-05-04T18:17:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2012-05-04T18:17:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:17:29","slug":"white-police-officer-cleared-in-shooting-death-of-an-elderly-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"White Police officer cleared in shooting death of an elderly black man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kenneth Chamberlain Family Seeks Suit, Federal Probe As Grand Jury Rejects Charging Officers\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/85w2ZclqDgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A grand jury has found that a White Plains police officer committed no crime when he fatally shot an elderly former Marine after an emotional standoff at the man\u2019s apartment, authorities said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The family of the slain man, 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., promptly said they would ask federal authorities to open a probe of the racially charged case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to question what evidence was presented to the grand jury . . . No indictment sends a very strong message to the people of Westchester County regarding police misconduct, brutality and criminality,\u201d said Chamberlain\u2019s son, Kenneth Jr., who had hoped for a murder charge against the cop who shot his dad.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/white_cop_cleared_in_black_slay_DhrjOVk6gcKALPigbWbV9L#ixzz1tvRy6vWq\">http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/white_cop_cleared_in_black_slay_DhrjOVk6gcKALPigbWbV9L#ixzz1tvRy6vWq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grand jury has found that a White Plains police officer committed no crime when he fatally shot an elderly former Marine after an emotional standoff at the man\u2019s apartment, authorities said yesterday. The family of the slain man, 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., promptly said they would ask federal authorities to open a probe of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42,43,41,40,25,44,39,7,45,38],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-talk-on-politics","tag-black-man","tag-former-marine","tag-grand-jury","tag-kenneth-chamberlain-sr","tag-police","tag-police-misconduct","tag-police-officer","tag-racist-america","tag-white-plains","tag-white-police-officer-cleared-in-shooting-death-of-an-elderly-black-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}