{"id":10563,"date":"2016-11-02T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2016-11-02T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:03:14","slug":"%e2%80%8btwo-years-after-ferguson-missouri-cops-are-accused-of-shaking-down-the-poor-vice-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/%e2%80%8btwo-years-after-ferguson-missouri-cops-are-accused-of-shaking-down-the-poor-vice-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"?Two Years After Ferguson, Missouri Cops Are Accused of Shaking Down the Poor | VICE | United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vice-images.vice.com\/images\/articles\/meta\/2016\/11\/02\/maplewood-missouri-ferguson-st-louis-county-debtor-prison-poor-arrest-fine-1478097494.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>&#8212;&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a Michael Brown,&#8221; one plaintiff in a new class-action lawsuit told us.<\/p>\n<p>You just can&#8217;t make this shit up. What the fuck is wrong with our country that Law Enforcement is SO fucking WRONG? This is TERRORISM. Citizens, guilty of nothing but being born poor and\/or not-white, in fear for their lives from the authorities. Victims of police abuse.<br \/>\n#Ferguson #MichaelBrown #Vice<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2fbOfGh\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2fbOfGh<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a Michael Brown,&#8221; one plaintiff in a new class-action lawsuit told us. You just can&#8217;t make this shit up. What the fuck is wrong with our country that Law Enforcement is SO fucking WRONG? This is TERRORISM. Citizens, guilty of nothing but being born poor and\/or not-white, in fear for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-10563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13053,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/subway-doors-trap-woman-by-the-neck-and-observers-reaction-may-surprise-you-the-huffington-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":10563,"position":0},"title":"Subway Doors Trap Woman By The Neck And Observers&#8217; Reaction May Surprise You | The Huffington Post","date":"April 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Sure. 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