{"id":19872,"date":"2018-07-24T02:07:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T06:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=19872"},"modified":"2018-08-03T17:07:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T21:07:14","slug":"probe-finds-ex-officer-called-teen-wild-animal-in-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2018\/07\/24\/probe-finds-ex-officer-called-teen-wild-animal-in-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe Finds Ex-officer Called Teen &#8216;Wild Animal&#8217; In Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4290\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/03\/23\/off-duty-officers-to-patrol-old-louisville\/lmpd-badge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LMPD-badge.jpg?fit=345%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"345,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"LMPD badge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LMPD-badge.jpg?fit=345%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LMPD-badge.jpg?resize=207%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LMPD-badge.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LMPD-badge.jpg?w=345&amp;ssl=1 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><br \/>\nRecords released by a Kentucky police department show a former officer had been suspended for calling a black teen a &#8220;wild animal that needs to be put down.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Documents from the Louisville Metro Police Department&#8217;s internal investigation into Brian Smith. According to the documents, Chief Steven Conrad in January planned to fire Smith for three Facebook posts that &#8220;advocate violence against others&#8221; and &#8220;fostered mistrust of the police.&#8221; But 10 days later, he said a 30-day suspension without pay would be sufficient. Police say Smith resigned in April.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was investigated after a complaint that his Facebook page demonstrated &#8220;deep-seated bias against minority communities.&#8221; Another post said someone should beat Madonna &#8220;half to death&#8221; with a microphone for studying the Quran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records released by a Kentucky police department show a former officer had been suspended for calling a black teen a &#8220;wild animal that needs to be put down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-5aw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-03 17:55:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LMPD-badge.jpg?fit=345%2C500&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19873,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19872\/revisions\/19873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}