{"id":34106,"date":"2013-02-13T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34106"},"modified":"2013-02-13T11:43:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:43:46","slug":"laweekly-ex-lapd-officer-says-cop-manifestos-not-unusual-for-racism-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/02\/13\/laweekly-ex-lapd-officer-says-cop-manifestos-not-unusual-for-racism-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"LAWeekly: Ex-LAPD Officer, Says Cop Manifestos Not Unusual For Racism Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third African American with experience at the LAPD has come out to express empathy with Christopher Dorner&#8217;s charges of cop racism.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that but Brian Bentley, who wrote about his experience on the job in One Time: The Story of a South Los Angeles Police Officer, says he knew three other cops who had manifestos of their own:<\/p>\n<p>He says in a statement that he expected to see a black cop blow his top sooner than later:<\/p>\n<p>    It took longer than I thought it would for something like this to happen.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old, like others who have spoken out on the topic of racism inside the LAPD, said he does not condone Dorner&#8217;s alleged actions &#8212; killing the daughter of an an ex-department captain and her fiance and fatally wounding two on-duty officers.<\/p>\n<p>But he empathizes with Dorner&#8217;s experience at the department: &#8220;I lived it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.laweekly.com\/informer\/2013\/02\/brian_bentley_ex_lapd_manifesto_racism_christopher_dorner.php\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third African American with experience at the LAPD has come out to express empathy with Christopher Dorner&#8217;s charges of cop racism. Not only that but Brian Bentley, who wrote about his experience on the job in One Time: The Story of a South Los Angeles Police Officer, says he knew three other cops who [&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-34106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106","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=34106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}