{"id":610,"date":"2012-07-12T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2012-07-12T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:31:12","slug":"four-children-watch-in-horror-as-police-taser-their-father-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Four children watch in horror as &#8216;police Taser their father to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2012\/07\/03\/article-2168304-13E98A47000005DC-140_468x425.jpg\" alt=\"Tragic: Corey McGinnis was Tasered by police after a fight broke out at a basketball game in Cincinnati. He never regained consciousness and later died\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span>A father has died after he was Tasered by police while trying to protect his two sons at a basketball game brawl &#8211; as four of his children looked on.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Corey McGinnis, 35, was playing basketball with a group of men and his sons, aged 15 and 16,\u00a0<\/span><span>at Crutchfield Park in Cincinnati, Ohio.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Family members said a fight broke out after the other team lost yet refused to pay the bet they had placed before the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the chaos, shots were fired and when police arrived on the scene, they Tasered three men, including McGinnis, to control the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The man, who has nine children and was an aspiring football coach, collapsed and was rushed to hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He never regained consciousness and his mother decided to turn off his life support after five days, McGinnis&#8217;s niece told\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cincinnati.com\/article\/20120702\/NEWS\/307020012\/Kids-saw-dad-get-Taser-shock?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Cincinnati.com<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A father has died after he was Tasered by police while trying to protect his two sons at a basketball game brawl &#8211; as four of his children looked on. Corey McGinnis, 35, was playing basketball with a group of men and his sons, aged 15 and 16,\u00a0at Crutchfield Park in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/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":[114,113,108,111,109,110,115,25,107,112],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-talk-on-politics","tag-basketball-game","tag-family-members","tag-four-children-watch-in-horror-as-8216police-taser-their-father-to-death","tag-horror","tag-mcginnis","tag-nbsp","tag-playing-basketball","tag-police","tag-police-brutality","tag-three-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}