{"id":33129,"date":"2012-12-17T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33129"},"modified":"2012-12-17T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:50:42","slug":"la-times-pasadena-police-shooting-of-kendrec-mcdade-was-justified-d-a-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/17\/la-times-pasadena-police-shooting-of-kendrec-mcdade-was-justified-d-a-says\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Pasadena police shooting of Kendrec McDade was justified, D.A. says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pasadena police officers acted lawfully when they fatally shot an unarmed college student, prosecutors said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The officers reasonably believed Kendrec McDade, 19, was armed with a gun based on false information from a 911 caller, according to a report on the March shooting released Monday by the Los Angeles County district attorney&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial shooting sparked protests and outrage in Pasadena, with some drawing comparisons to the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida.  <\/p>\n<p>McDade, 19, was killed March 24 when Officers Jeffrey Newlen and Mathew Griffin responded to a report of an armed theft of  a man near a taco truck in northwest Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/12\/kendrec-mcdade-pasadena-police-shooting-justified.html\" title=\"Pasadena police shooting of Kendrec McDade was justified, D.A. says\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasadena police officers acted lawfully when they fatally shot an unarmed college student, prosecutors said Monday. The officers reasonably believed Kendrec McDade, 19, was armed with a gun based on false information from a 911 caller, according to a report on the March shooting released Monday by the Los Angeles County district attorney&#8217;s office. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33130,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33129\/revisions\/33130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}