{"id":6981,"date":"2009-03-30T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T21:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2009-03-30T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T21:32:54","slug":"officer-suspended-after-roughing-up-skater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6981","title":{"rendered":"Officer Suspended After Roughing Up Skater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davie, Florida police officer <strong>David Rodriguez<\/strong>, 25, has received a two-day suspension and been ordered to attend anger amanagement classes after he reportedly slammed a 10-year-old skateboarder up against his car while the child was skateboarding in front of his own house, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/community\/news\/davie\/sfl-flbcopandkid0330sbmar30,0,6627517.story\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Sentinel<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He threw him like he was a rag doll,&#8221; said the boy&#8217;s father, <strong>Joseph Smith<\/strong>, who witnessed the April 6, 2008 incident and filed a complaint the next day. . . Smith says his son was left with a cut on his knee, a bruise on his chest and a fear of police. . . Rodriguez was facing a battery charge, but Broward prosecutors closed the case on Nov. 17 after both parties agreed to mediation and the boy&#8217;s father decided not to press charges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminding us once again that people who want to be police officers should automatically be disqualified from service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/community\/news\/davie\/sfl-flbcopandkid0330sbmar30,0,6627517.story\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Sentinel<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skatedaily.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skatedaily.net<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davie, Florida police officer David Rodriguez, 25, has received a two-day suspension and been ordered to attend anger amanagement classes after he reportedly slammed a 10-year-old skateboarder up against his car while the child was skateboarding in front of his own house, according to a story in the Sun Sentinel. &#8220;He threw him like he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}