{"id":36868,"date":"2013-07-30T07:16:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36868"},"modified":"2013-07-30T07:16:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T14:16:34","slug":"think-progress-florida-cops-shoot-unarmed-black-man-in-his-mothers-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/30\/think-progress-florida-cops-shoot-unarmed-black-man-in-his-mothers-driveway\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Progress: Florida Cops Shoot Unarmed Black Man In His Mother\u2019s Driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, deputies from Escambia County, Florida shot an unarmed man who went to grab cigarettes from the car parked in the driveway of his mother\u2019s home. A neighbor called police at 2 a.m. because he suspected 60-year-old Roy Middleton was stealing the car. Things quickly escalated when two deputies arrived and ordered Middleton to \u201cget your hands where I can see them,\u201d the Pensacola News Journal reports:<\/p>\n<p>    [Middleton] said he initially thought it was a neighbor joking with him, but when he turned his head he saw deputies standing halfway down his driveway.<\/p>\n<p>    He said he backed out of the vehicle with his hands raised, but when he turned to face the deputies, they immediately opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cIt was like a firing squad,\u201d he said. \u201cBullets were flying everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/07\/29\/2372931\/florida-police-shot-unarmed-man-shot-in-driveway-of-his-mothers-home-it-was-like-a-firing-squad\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, deputies from Escambia County, Florida shot an unarmed man who went to grab cigarettes from the car parked in the driveway of his mother\u2019s home. A neighbor called police at 2 a.m. because he suspected 60-year-old Roy Middleton was stealing the car. Things quickly escalated when two deputies arrived and ordered Middleton to [&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-36868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868","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=36868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36869,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868\/revisions\/36869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}