{"id":12559,"date":"2012-02-02T14:57:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12559"},"modified":"2012-02-02T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:57:54","slug":"black-teen-beaten-for-having-white-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12559","title":{"rendered":"Black Teen Beaten For Having White Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old African-American teen was beaten during a hate crime in Chicago in late December 2011, area police are now reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The victim,<strong> Joshua Merritt<\/strong>, a senior at Brother Rice High School, was attacked by three white teenage boys who attend the same institution.<\/p>\n<p>The assault was allegedly motivated by the Black male starting a interracial relationship with the cousin of the youngest perpetrator. The assailants were charged on January 10 for the December 23 attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Herrmann<\/strong>, 18, was charged with misdemeanor battery, a hate crime, and unlawful restraint. He will be tried as an adult, while the younger offenders, who are 16 and 17, were cited in delinquency petitions for the same charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old African-American teen was beaten during a hate crime in Chicago in late December 2011, area police are now reporting. The victim, Joshua Merritt, a senior at Brother Rice High School, was attacked by three white teenage boys who attend the same institution. The assault was allegedly motivated by the Black male starting a [&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-12559","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\/12559","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=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}