{"id":6229,"date":"2011-05-02T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2011-05-02T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:08:17","slug":"witness-defends-policeman-who-punched-woman-in-ihop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6229","title":{"rendered":"Witness Defends Policeman Who Punched Woman In IHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; A video taken at a local IHOP restaurant has been getting a lot of attention. The video shows a police officer punching a female patron during an altercation.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, <strong>Jose Vidal<\/strong>, has been assigned to desk duty while the case is investigated. However, one witness has come out to defend the officer&#8217;s actions, calling them justified.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tanika Hudson<\/strong>, a witness and IHOP employee, says the woman was in the wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashley Leavell<\/strong>, the women who hit and was hit, now faces criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hudson<\/strong> states that if the patrons had just left when the officer told them to, none of this would have happened.<\/p>\n<p>He was not wrong. He was in the right. I think the woman should be prosecuted. You do not lay hands on an officer whose just trying to do his job,&#8221; added <strong>Hudson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; A video taken at a local IHOP restaurant has been getting a lot of attention. The video shows a police officer punching a female patron during an altercation. The officer, Jose Vidal, has been assigned to desk duty while the case is investigated. However, one witness has come out to defend the officer&#8217;s [&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-6229","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\/6229","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=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}