{"id":32728,"date":"2013-03-08T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32728"},"modified":"2013-03-08T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:45:59","slug":"nottage-ignores-families-desperate-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/nottage-ignores-families-desperate-for-help","title":{"rendered":"Nottage Ignores Families Desperate For Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32729\" title=\"protestors-police-abuse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/protestors-police-abuse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/protestors-police-abuse.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/protestors-police-abuse-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/protestors-police-abuse-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parliamentarians came face to face with frustrated family members of three men who died in police custody and another who was shot and killed by police.<\/p>\n<p>When Minister of National Security Dr. Bernard Nottage arrived in Rawson Square around 9:30 a.m.,<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s relatives were shouting that they wanted justice. The minister proceeded into the House of Assembly without acknowledging the crowd a few feet away.<\/p>\n<p>Among the protestors was Tabitha Munnings, whose brother Job \u2018Mr. Versatile\u2019 Munnings, 34, was shot dead by police in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, on January 23.<\/p>\n<p>After the minister passed, Munnings dropped to her knees and burst into tears.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Ivan Strachan, Munnings\u2019 uncle, called the sequence of events an \u201cinjustice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In opposition, Nottage was a passionate advocate for crime victims and strong in his concerns about alleged police abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperate, grieving family members (of three young men who died mysteriously in police custody and another who was shot and killed by police) were ignored by Bernard Nottage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[231,38],"class_list":["post-32728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-justice","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}