{"id":12941,"date":"2014-02-19T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=12941"},"modified":"2014-02-19T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:18:36","slug":"grand-rapids-cop-violates-citizens-2nd-amendment-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/grand-rapids-cop-violates-citizens-2nd-amendment-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Rapids Cop Violates Citizen&#8217;s 2nd Amendment Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xB5F_WzTQbQ\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>GRAND RAPIDS, MI &#8212;<\/strong> A man was forced to the concrete at gunpoint, handcuffed, and held with a pistol aimed at his back by an officer who didn&#8217;t approve of him exercising his right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>Johann Deffert, 28, was simply walking down the street &#8212; breaking no laws &#8212; while wearing a holstered pistol on his waistband.<\/p>\n<p>Such an act is perfectly legal in the state of Michigan. Yet when the streets are patrolled by overzealous, uninformed law enforcers, exercising rights can be a serious hazard to one&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Rapids police officer William Moe saw Deffert walking down the sidewalk. &#8220;It does look like he&#8217;s got a handgun on,&#8221; Moe told a dispatcher. Moe reacted to him like as if he had just robbed a bank. Moe exited his vehicle with his pistol trained on Deffert, barking orders and putting lives at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the ground!! On the ground!! Put your hands on top of your head!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND RAPIDS, MI &#8212; A man was forced to the concrete at gunpoint, handcuffed, and held with a pistol aimed at his back by an officer who didn&#8217;t approve of him exercising his right to bear arms. Johann Deffert, 28, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/grand-rapids-cop-violates-citizens-2nd-amendment-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12942,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions\/12942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}