{"id":48568,"date":"2015-11-09T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48568"},"modified":"2015-11-09T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T19:03:03","slug":"chicago-area-cops-killing-now-ruled-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/11\/09\/chicago-area-cops-killing-now-ruled-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Area Cop&#8217;s Killing Now Ruled Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/13\/items\/20151109Uprising\/2015_11_09_Shaun_King.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/13\/items\/20151109Uprising\/2015_11_09_Uprising.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Shaun King<\/strong>, civil rights activist and reporter with the New York Daily News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When 52-year old Fox Lake Police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest in early September, the Chicago area community that he worked in, mourned a man they called a hero. Gliniewicz radioed in before his death, saying he was pursuing 3 armed suspects, two white, and one black. His death prompted a massive manhunt for the supposed suspects who never turned up. In the days that followed pro-police voices took to the airwaves and blamed the Black Lives Matter movement for creating an environment where police were being targeted more often. <\/p>\n<p>Now, in a bizarre twist, Gliniewicz&#8217;s death has been ruled a suicide. The cop, who was known as GI Joe, was just months away from retirement but was apparently involved in an embezzlement scandal, having allegedly siphoned of thousands of dollars from a youth program that he ran. He worried about being exposed when an audit of the program was imminent. Authorities now say his death was an elaborately staged suicide. <\/p>\n<p>Follow Shaun&#8217;s work at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shauninthecity.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.shauninthecity.com<\/a><\/em>, or on Twitter <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaunKing\" target=\"_blank\">@ShaunKing<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Shaun King, civil rights activist and reporter with the New York Daily News. When 52-year old Fox Lake Police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest in early September, the Chicago area community that he worked in, mourned a man they called a hero. Gliniewicz radioed in before [&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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48568","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=48568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48579,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48568\/revisions\/48579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}