{"id":34229,"date":"2013-04-10T22:26:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=34229"},"modified":"2013-04-10T22:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:38:14","slug":"police-warn-public-over-posting-police-abuse-photos-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/police-warn-public-over-posting-police-abuse-photos-online","title":{"rendered":"Public Warned Over Posting &#8216;Police Abuse&#8217; Photos Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34230\" title=\"greenslade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/greenslade1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>After his threats&#8230; um warning, that posting what he termed &#8220;lewd&#8221; or &#8220;obscene&#8221; images would &#8220;get you into grave problems&#8221; Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade has said nothing about whether or not action will be taken against the individuals who re-posted photos that led to Rodney Moncur being charged before the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Bahamians continue to protest Mr Moncur\u2019s treatment, and two of the photos in question have resurfaced on Facebook. One was uploaded to CNN, showing the body of Jamie Smith, who died while in police custody last month and the other showed the bruised buttocks of a man who claimed to have been beaten by police.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Moncur was charged with committing a \u201cgrossly indecent act\u201d for publishing the photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Greenslade&#8217;s warned to the public not to post \u201clewd\u201d or \u201cobscene\u201d pictures online elicited a strong backlash.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook page &#8220;Free Rodney Moncur&#8221; gathered more than 4,000 members and fierce debate occurred online over the charges facing Moncur, with some questioning why others who had posted material online, which they considered more offensive, had not been charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After images surfaced on Facebook indicating alleged police abuse Commissioner Greenslade issued a stern warning to the public but it smacks of police protecting themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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-34229","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\/34229","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}