{"id":150683135,"date":"2009-10-11T00:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=150683135"},"modified":"2009-10-11T00:25:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T00:25:35","slug":"cyclist-pepper-sprayed-for-not-wearing-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=150683135","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist pepper-sprayed for not wearing helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Nelson police officer is to stand trial on assault charges after pepper-spraying a cyclist not wearing a helmet and then ramming him into a bank with his patrol car.<br \/>\nJustices of the peace Donald Horn and Mary Harley yesterday committed Senior Constable Garry Dunn to trial after a two-day depositions hearing in Nelson District Court. Dunn, who faces two charges of assault, has been stood down from duty on full pay.<br \/>\nNelson chef Shaun Robert Taylor told the court Dunn used excessive force against him for not wearing a helmet on February 10 this year.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/crime\/2949103\/Cyclist-pepper-sprayed-for-not-wearing-helmet\">https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/crime\/2949103\/Cyclist-pepper-sprayed-for-not-wearing-helmet<\/a><br \/>\nOriginal story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Video\/CampbellLive\/tabid\/367\/articleID\/91551\/cat\/84\/Default.aspx\">https:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Video\/CampbellLive\/tabid\/367\/articleID\/91551\/cat\/84\/Default.aspx<\/a>oldId.20091011002535474<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nelson police officer is to stand trial on assault charges after pepper-spraying a cyclist not wearing a helmet and then ramming him into a bank with his patrol car. Justices of the peace Donald Horn and Mary Harley yesterday committed Senior Constable Garry Dunn to trial after a two-day depositions hearing in Nelson District &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=150683135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cyclist pepper-sprayed for not wearing helmet&#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-150683135","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\/150683135","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=150683135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150683135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150683135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150683135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150683135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}