{"id":12818,"date":"2015-01-14T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12818"},"modified":"2015-01-13T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T01:47:21","slug":"from-rawstory-albuquerque-cops-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-shooting-of-homeless-man-at-campsite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/from-rawstory-albuquerque-cops-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-shooting-of-homeless-man-at-campsite\/","title":{"rendered":"(From RawStory) &#8220;Albuquerque Cops Charged with Murder in Fatal Shooting of Homeless Man at Campsite&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Story:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Mexico prosecutor has bypassed a grand jury and filed murder charges Monday against two Albuquerque police officers who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/03\/helmet-camera-captures-disturbing-police-shooting-of-homeless-man-in-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">shot and killed<\/a> a mentally ill homeless man last year at his illegal campsite.<\/p>\n<p>James Boyd had been camping March 16 in a restricted area in the foothills above the city after homeless shelters were closed, friends said.<\/p>\n<p>Police negotiated for nearly five hours with the 36-year-old Boyd before an officer fired a flash-bang grenade at the homeless man, who appears disoriented and grabs a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd, who was a paranoid schizophrenic, was shot to death after taking a step toward officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/01\/murder-charges-expected-against-albuquerque-cops-who-killed-homeless-man-at-campsite\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click HERE to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/01\/murder-charges-expected-against-albuquerque-cops-who-killed-homeless-man-at-campsite\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12819 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/albq_screencap22-800x430-e1421199985686.jpg\" alt=\"albq_screencap22-800x430\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Story: &#8220;New Mexico prosecutor has bypassed a grand jury and filed murder charges Monday against two Albuquerque police officers who shot and killed a mentally ill homeless man last year at his illegal campsite. James Boyd had been camping March 16 in a restricted area in the foothills above the city after homeless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}