{"id":168644,"date":"2018-07-02T01:14:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T05:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168644"},"modified":"2018-07-02T01:14:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T05:14:41","slug":"police-pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-on-duty-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/02\/police-pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-on-duty-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Pedestrian dies after being hit by on duty officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_168648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168648\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/squad-car-1209719_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168648\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/squad-car-1209719_1280.jpg\" alt=\"The officer was not injured in the crash and has been placed on paid administrative leave. (Photo: Pixabay)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/squad-car-1209719_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/squad-car-1209719_1280-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/squad-car-1209719_1280-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/squad-car-1209719_1280-1024x554.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The officer was not injured in the crash and has been placed on paid administrative leave. (Photo: Pixabay)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Times; color: black;\">BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 Authorities say a pedestrian who was struck by an on-duty police officer in Louisiana has died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Times; color: black;\">The Baton Rouge Advocate reports the pedestrian who was struck by an on-duty Baton Rouge police officer on Saturday has been identified as 51-year-old John Payne. Officials say Payne was pronounced dead at a hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Times; color: black;\">The officer was not injured in the crash and has been placed on paid administrative leave. Police spokesman Sgt. L&#8217;Jean McKneely Jr. says speed does not appear to be a factor in the crash.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 Authorities say a pedestrian who was struck by an on-duty police officer in Louisiana has died. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":168648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[6861,5512,52448,6499],"class_list":["post-168644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-cops","tag-hit-and-run","tag-injure","tag-la","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}