{"id":22819,"date":"2012-06-19T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=22819"},"modified":"2012-06-19T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:13:23","slug":"greenslade-police-brutality-will-be-punished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/06\/greenslade-police-brutality-will-be-punished","title":{"rendered":"Greenslade: &#8216;Police Brutality Will Be Punished&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22825\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22825\" title=\"ellison-greenslade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ellison-greenslade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ellison-greenslade.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ellison-greenslade-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police officers who are found guilty of brutality will be reprimanded, says Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade.<\/p>\n<p>But unsubstantiated allegations of brutality will discourage officers from doing their duties, he believes.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Greenslade said he has been bothered by what he sees as the public&#8217;s willingness to accept claims of police brutality without knowing the facts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying that any officer should be above the law, but I am worried about allegations. We are picking up people with checkered criminal histories,&#8221; said Mr Greenslade.<\/p>\n<p>He said cameras had been placed in interrogation rooms in Grand Bahama and the Central Detective Unit would soon be outfitted with cameras as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is culpability we will bring charges,&#8221; said Mr Greenslade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Commissioner Greenslade stated that officers found guilty of brutality will be reprimanded but this is difficult to believe only days after a healthy young man died in police custody of a &#8220;heart attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-22819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}