{"id":133007799,"date":"2009-03-20T10:36:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=133007799"},"modified":"2009-03-20T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:36:39","slug":"police-detention-for-riding-a-bike-at-night-and-forgetting-to-turn-on-your-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=133007799","title":{"rendered":"Police detention for riding a bike at night and forgetting to turn on your lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/news_impact\/2009\/03\/large_freedom.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<b>A federal jury Thursday found in favor of two Portland officers, determining they used reasonable force in their arrest and detention of a St. Johns woman who was riding her bike at night without a light on Aug. 6, 2003.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, it is reasonable to pull someone from their home and detain them for not turning on their bike lights rather then just issuing a ticket. After all doesn&#8217;t this 67 year old women look like a threat to society?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/03\/st_johns_woman_tells_jury_that.html\">Part one of the story<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/03\/federal_jury_rules_portland_po.html\">Part two of the story<\/a>oldId.20090320103639547<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury Thursday found in favor of two Portland officers, determining they used reasonable force in their arrest and detention of a St. Johns woman who was riding her bike at night without a light on Aug. 6, 2003. That&#8217;s right, it is reasonable to pull someone from their home and detain them for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=133007799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police detention for riding a bike at night and forgetting to turn on your lights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133007799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133007799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133007799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133007799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133007799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133007799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133007799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}