{"id":23153,"date":"2013-08-01T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23153"},"modified":"2013-08-01T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T20:17:15","slug":"fla-man-shot-in-front-of-home-by-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23153","title":{"rendered":"Fla. Man Shot In Front Of Home By Police Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ROY MIDDLETON <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>WARRINGTON, FL &#8211; <b>Roy Middleton,<\/b> a 60-year-old African-American man in Western Florida, is recovering from wounds, after police shot him in front of his home last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><b>Middleton<\/b> was reportedly looking for a cigarette inside his mother\u2019s parked car \u2014 which sat in his driveway \u2014 when county officers opened fired on him even though he reportedly did not provoke them.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred in the town of Warrington, a small predominantly White town just six miles from Pensacola and the Alabama state line, The shooting reportedly happened early Saturday morning, after Escambia County sheriff deputies were responding to a 911 call of a neighbor who saw <b>Middleton<\/b> looking around in the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROY MIDDLETON \u00a0 WARRINGTON, FL &#8211; Roy Middleton, a 60-year-old African-American man in Western Florida, is recovering from wounds, after police shot him in front of his home last Saturday. Middleton was reportedly looking for a cigarette inside his mother\u2019s parked car \u2014 which sat in his driveway \u2014 when county officers opened fired on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"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-23153","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\/23153","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\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}