{"id":12267,"date":"2012-01-12T16:16:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12267"},"modified":"2012-01-12T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T19:56:35","slug":"police-kill-man-after-hug-is-mistaken-for-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12267","title":{"rendered":"Police Kill Man  After Hug Is Mistaken for Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Toronto man who went to his native Grenada over the holidays to visit family was beaten to death by police officers over a mistaken hug.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Bartholomew&#8217;s<\/strong> family is outraged that the officers accused of killing the 39-year-old are only facing manslaughter charges. &#8220;Everybody is upset,&#8221; Anastasia Bartholomew said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Bartholomew<\/strong> reportedly stopped at a police station with his wife so she could use the restroom. While his wife was in the restroom, <strong>Oscar<\/strong> saw a female police officer who he thought was an old friend. He ran up to her and grabbed her from behind, hugging her while he lifted her in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for him, the person he lifted in the air wasn&#8217;t his old friend, who his family claims was also a cop.<\/p>\n<p>Once fellow officers saw this, they attacked him and allegedly bound his hands and feet with duct tape. A few hours later he was taken to a hospital, where he died the next day from multiple head injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Five Royal Grenada Police Force officers are now accused of manslaughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Toronto man who went to his native Grenada over the holidays to visit family was beaten to death by police officers over a mistaken hug. Oscar Bartholomew&#8217;s family is outraged that the officers accused of killing the 39-year-old are only facing manslaughter charges. &#8220;Everybody is upset,&#8221; Anastasia Bartholomew said. Oscar Bartholomew reportedly stopped at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}