{"id":148401,"date":"2020-06-16T03:47:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T01:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/16\/its-time-to-fight-back-rayshard-brooks-death-prompts-calls-for-overhaul-of-atlantas-police-department\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T03:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T01:47:43","slug":"its-time-to-fight-back-rayshard-brooks-death-prompts-calls-for-overhaul-of-atlantas-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=148401","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s time to fight back\u2019: Rayshard Brooks\u2019 death prompts calls for overhaul of Atlanta\u2019s police department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A city already mobilized by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery has activists working toward police and criminal justice reformSherialyn Byrdsong stood in the parking lot of the Wendy\u2019s drive-through where Rayshard Brooks was killed four nights ago and listened to a woman addressing the crowd passionately.\u201cIt\u2019s getting dark and I need to get my baby home,\u201d the speaker said. \u201cBut I need y\u2019all to listen for a minute. I need y\u2019all to understand that we outnumber them. The police, the national guard, the army, the navy \u2014 whoever comes down here. I need y\u2019all to exercise your second amendment right, because the civil war never ended. They\u2019re immune to us singing We Shall Overcome. It\u2019s time to fight back.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jun\/15\/rayshard-brooks-death-atlanta-police-defund\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018It\u2019s time to fight back\u2019: Rayshard Brooks\u2019 death prompts calls for overhaul of Atlanta\u2019s police department<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city already mobilized by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery has activists working toward police and criminal justice reformSherialyn Byrdsong stood in the parking lot of the Wendy\u2019s drive-through where Rayshard Brooks was killed four nights ago and listened to a woman addressing the crowd passionately.\u201cIt\u2019s getting dark and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}