{"id":16442,"date":"2020-09-04T11:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16442"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:40:37","slug":"police-release-video-of-black-man-killing-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16442","title":{"rendered":"Police release video of Black man killing in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC police published footage Thursday of a deadly shooting of a Black teen that sparked protests in the nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>After Deon Kay, 18, was killed Wednesday, a group of protesters confronted police at a station.<\/p>\n<p>According to videos circulated on Twitter, several protesters gathered outside Mayor Muriel Bowser&#8217;s house early Thursday and called for the dismissal of Police Chief Peter Newsham because of the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n<p>In the police video, an officer is seen quickly exiting a car and shouting: &#8220;Don&#8217;t move, don&#8217;t move,&#8221; before shooting Kay.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Police Department said officers approached individuals in a parked vehicle and Kay exited and began to run.<\/p>\n<p>Kay &#8220;brandished a firearm&#8221; and the officer discharged his weapon once, striking him in the chest, said police.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser offered condolences Kay\u2019s family and called the shooting &#8220;tragic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our community is hurting, and we know that they want answers,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Police killings of Black people have drawn renewed criticism and tension in the US since the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Kenosha, Wisconsin became the latest flash point when police shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times late last month.<\/p>\n<p>Blake remains paralyzed at a local hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Washington, DC police published footage Thursday of a deadly shooting of a Black teen that sparked protests in the nation&#8217;s capital. After Deon Kay, 18, was killed Wednesday, a group of protesters confronted police at a station. According to videos circulated on Twitter, several protesters gathered outside Mayor Muriel Bowser&#8217;s house early Thursday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16443,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions\/16443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}