{"id":13107,"date":"2012-03-01T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13107"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:24:09","slug":"no-one-helps-carjacked-86-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13107","title":{"rendered":"No One Helps Carjacked  86-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Brantley, an 86-year-old African-American World War II veteran, is resting in Detroit, after a daylight carjacking attack left him with a broken leg. What\u2019s worse? As <strong>Brantley<\/strong> writhed in pain, people walked by and ignored the elderly man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brantley<\/strong>, a retired Chrysler plant worker and Air Corps veteran, was pumping gas into his new car at a BP gas station.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Brantley<\/strong>, all of a sudden, he was pushed to the ground from behind and robbed of his new Chrysler sedan, a replacement for a previously stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The fall broke <strong>Brantley\u2019s<\/strong> leg, forcing him to crawl across the gas station\u2019s lot until an attendant helped him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI noticed when I was crawling to the gas station, people were walking past me like I wasn\u2019t there,\u201d <strong>Brantley<\/strong> said. \u201cI said, Lord, have mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were alerted but were late in arriving to the scene, so a customer drove <strong>Brantley<\/strong> home. Ambulances met Brantley at his residence and took him to a nearby hospital for treatment. Hours later, a man found <strong>Brantley\u2019s<\/strong> car and Bible, which had his phone number inscribed on the inside. The car was left abandoned on the city\u2019s East Side, missing its wheels and radio.<\/p>\n<p>Even though his children have urged him to move from his beloved city, <strong>Brantley<\/strong> has refused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Brantley, an 86-year-old African-American World War II veteran, is resting in Detroit, after a daylight carjacking attack left him with a broken leg. What\u2019s worse? As Brantley writhed in pain, people walked by and ignored the elderly man. Brantley, a retired Chrysler plant worker and Air Corps veteran, was pumping gas into his new [&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-13107","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\/13107","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=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}