{"id":14152,"date":"2012-04-26T15:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T19:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14152"},"modified":"2012-04-26T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:22:35","slug":"brothers-go-on-trial-in-beating-of-black-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14152","title":{"rendered":"Brothers Go On Trial In Beating Of Black Teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2013 Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the<strong> Trayvon Martin<\/strong> shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense, saying the teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights activists hope the <strong>Martin<\/strong> case will draw more attention to what they believe was racial profiling by neighborhood watch vigilantes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eliyahu<\/strong> and <strong>Avi Werdesheim<\/strong> are accused of beating a 15-year-old boy who was walking through a Baltimore neighborhood in November 2010. The brothers pulled up next to the teen in a vehicle, then got out and \u201csurrounded him,\u201d according to charging documents. The passenger threw the teen to the ground and the driver hit him in the head with a hand-held radio and patted him down.<\/p>\n<p>The teen remembered the driver yelling, \u201cYou wanna (mess) with us, you don\u2019t belong around here, get outta here!\u201d according to court documents, which do not identify which brother was driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2013 Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting. The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense, saying the teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights activists [&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-14152","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\/14152","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=14152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}