{"id":2231,"date":"2015-09-26T06:16:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T06:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2015-09-26T06:16:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T06:16:02","slug":"us-video-footage-shows-maryland-police-kill-another-unarmed-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/09\/26\/us-video-footage-shows-maryland-police-kill-another-unarmed-black-man\/","title":{"rendered":"US :Video footage shows Maryland police kill another unarmed black man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A white police officer in the US state of Maryland fatally shoot an unarmed 19-year-old African American man as he allegedly tried to purchase narcotic medicine with a fake prescription.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore County police published surveillance footage on Friday of Keith McLeod being shot dead on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The video showed Officer David Earomirski shooting McLeod three times at close range in a parking lot in Reisterstown, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>No weapon was found on McLeod, according to police. He was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Earomirski, 31, is a 10-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department. He was placed on paid administrative leave after the shooting, which is standard procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal shooting comes amid growing sentiment against police violence prompted by numerous killings of unarmed African-Americans in the past year.<br \/>\nProtests and riots have occurred across the US against police brutality and racial injustice since last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 900 people have been killed by police since the beginning of 2015, according to data collected by an activist group known as Killed by Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white police officer in the US state of Maryland fatally shoot an unarmed 19-year-old African American man as he allegedly tried to purchase narcotic medicine with a fake prescription. Baltimore County police published surveillance footage on Friday of Keith McLeod being shot dead on Wednesday. The video showed Officer David Earomirski shooting McLeod three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[290,366,292],"tags":[445,754,352,755,328,727],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-america","category-hra","category-minority-rights","tag-black-man","tag-footage","tag-kill","tag-maryland-police","tag-us","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}