
{"id":5767,"date":"2009-05-07T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2009-05-07T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T17:38:03","slug":"students-file-complaint-against-campus-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/05\/07\/students-file-complaint-against-campus-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Students file complaint against campus police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UNC student group has filed a formal complaint with the UNC Department of Public Safety. <\/p>\n<p>The group, the UNC Protesters Defense Committee, claims DPS \u00e2\u20ac\u0153has failed to serve and protect the university community\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153created a chilling effect that suppresses student activism and free expression on campus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153attacking, intimidating and arresting protesters,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a press release from the group states. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The group filed the complaint at a re-accreditation public hearing regarding DPS on Monday. According to the press release, the group alleges DPS \u00e2\u20ac\u0153initiated violence against a peaceful, nonviolent demonstration\u00e2\u20ac\u009d during the April 14 protest against anti-immigration speaker Tom Tancredo. The group also alleges officers acted improperly toward protesters at the April 22 talk of anti-immigration speaker Virgil Goode. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UNC student group has filed a formal complaint with the UNC Department of Public Safety. The group, the UNC Protesters Defense Committee, claims DPS \u00e2\u20ac\u0153has failed to serve and protect the university community\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153created a chilling effect that suppresses student activism and free expression on campus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153attacking, intimidating and arresting protesters,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}