{"id":3237,"date":"2007-02-04T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T16:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/killer-cops-better-than-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T16:58:57","slug":"killer-cops-better-than-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/killer-cops-better-than-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Cops: Better than Terrorists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The #2 Homeland Security official for Prince George\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s County, Maryland recently shot two furniture delivery guys who brought a new bed to his house.\u00c2\u00a0 The headboard had a scratch, according to local news reports.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The shooter is also a long -term employee of the Prince George\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s County Police Department.\u00c2\u00a0 This police department has long had one of the worst records in the nation for gunning down innocent civilians.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0In the 1990s, the P.G. Police\u00c2\u00a0killed and maimed more unarmed people than the Unabomber and the Aryan Nation combined.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have reposted a piece on my blog that I did for Playboy in 2001 on how some government employees acquire a right to shoot others with impunity.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I have never understood why terrorists are demonized while people wearing uniforms who kill innocent civilians almost always receive endless benefits of the doubts.<\/p>\n<p>Comments etc. welcome at my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/killer-cops-next-to-dc\/\">blog here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #2 Homeland Security official for Prince George\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s County, Maryland recently shot two furniture delivery guys who brought a new bed to his house.\u00c2\u00a0 The headboard had a scratch, according to local news reports.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The shooter is also a long -term employee of the Prince George\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s County Police Department.\u00c2\u00a0 This police department has long had one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}