{"id":36383,"date":"2014-12-25T02:26:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=36383"},"modified":"2015-09-20T14:56:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:56:57","slug":"officer-kills-armed-18-year-old-near-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/25\/officer-kills-armed-18-year-old-near-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer kills armed 18-year-old near Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99137546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36358\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99137546.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_99137546\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99137546.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99137546-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99137546-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BERKELEY, Mo. &#8212; A mayor is pressing for calm in his St. Louis suburb after a white police officer fatally shot a black 18-year-old police say pointed a handgun at the officer.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis County police on Wednesday identified the young man killed during the Berkeley encounter as Antonio Martin.<\/p>\n<p>County Police Chief Jon Belmar says the officer was questioning the 18-year-old and another man about a theft at a convenience store when the young man pulled a handgun.<\/p>\n<p>Belmar says the officer fired three shots, one striking the 18-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley is near Ferguson, where Michael Brown&#8217;s August shooting death by a white police officer sparked sometimes violent demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley Mayor Theodore Hoskins says the Martin and Brown cases are different, partly because there was no video of the fatal encounter in Ferguson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERKELEY, Mo. &#8212; A mayor is pressing for calm in his St. Louis suburb after a white police officer fatally &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":36358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-w","mauthors-jim-suhr","mauthors-jim-salter","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36383","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}