{"id":16127,"date":"2012-08-13T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16127"},"modified":"2012-08-13T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:00:57","slug":"ny-cops-shoot-knife-wielding-man-dead-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16127","title":{"rendered":"NY Cops Shoot Knife-Wielding Man Dead In Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY, NY &#8212; New York Police Department officers shot 51-year-old <strong>Darrius Kennedy<\/strong> dead in the middle of Times Square Saturday afternoon after he allegedly refused\u00a0 to put down a large knife he was reportedly wielding at officers and tourists.<\/p>\n<p>A reported 12 shots were fired at <strong>Kennedy<\/strong> after he allegedly advanced towards officers with the knife. He was shot several times in the stomach and later died at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly encounter began around 3 p.m. when an officer reportedly noticed <strong>Kennedy<\/strong> smoking a joint. When the cop tried to cuff him, <strong>Kennedy<\/strong> grew irate and pulled out a six-inch blade. <strong>Kennedy<\/strong> allegedly began wielding it in the middle of Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>He was pepper-sprayed six times, but it did not force <strong>Kennedy<\/strong> to give in to officers\u2019 demands, according to NYPD officials. He was repeatedly asked to put down the knife but refused to do so, police officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY, NY &#8212; New York Police Department officers shot 51-year-old Darrius Kennedy dead in the middle of Times Square Saturday afternoon after he allegedly refused\u00a0 to put down a large knife he was reportedly wielding at officers and tourists. A reported 12 shots were fired at Kennedy after he allegedly advanced towards officers [&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-16127","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\/16127","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=16127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}