{"id":4724,"date":"2013-10-29T14:02:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2013-10-29T14:02:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:02:27","slug":"police-dog-bites-fifth-grader-when-cops-conduct-mock-classroom-drug-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/10\/29\/police-dog-bites-fifth-grader-when-cops-conduct-mock-classroom-drug-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Police dog bites fifth grader when cops conduct mock classroom drug raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A classroom demonstration in Brazil, Indiana went awry last week when a police dog attacked a fifth grade boy. According to the Brazil Times, police officers visiting the school were conducting a mock drug raid on Oct. 17 when the dog bit the boy and left him with puncture wounds to the leg.<\/p>\n<p>Officers intended to demonstrate that drug-sniffing dogs can detect even the smallest amounts of an illegal substance on an individual. They assembled a row of students, planting a small amount of illegal drugs on one boy.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil Police Chief Clint McQueen told the Times that the dog, Max, and his handler, Ray Walters, have conducted these types of demonstrations uneventfully before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an unfortunate accident,\u201d McQueen said. \u201cWish it hadn\u2019t happened like that but it did. We are trying to evaluate (the incident) to make sure nothing like this happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The classroom demonstration was carried out ostensibly to educate the group of fifth graders \u201con drug awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/10\/27\/police-dog-bites-fifth-grader-when-cops-conduct-mock-classroom-drug-raid\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/10\/27\/police-dog-bites-fifth-grader-when-cops-conduct-mock-classroom-drug-raid\/\">http:\/\/www.rawstory. \u2026 classroom-drug-raid\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classroom demonstration in Brazil, Indiana went awry last week when a police dog attacked a fifth grade boy. According to the Brazil Times, police officers visiting the school were conducting a mock drug raid on Oct. 17 when the dog bit the boy and left him with puncture wounds to the leg. Officers intended to demonstrate that drug-sniffing dogs can detect even the smallest amounts of an illegal substance on an individual. They assembled a row of students, planting a small amount of illegal drugs on one boy. Brazil Police Chief Clint McQueen told the Times that the dog, Max, and his handler, Ray Walters, have conducted these types of demonstrations uneventfully before. \u201cIt was an unfortunate accident,\u201d McQueen said. \u201cWish it hadn\u2019t happened like that but it did. We are trying to evaluate (the incident) to make sure nothing like this happens again.\u201d The classroom demonstration was carried out ostensibly to educate the group of fifth graders \u201con drug awareness.\u201d Full article: http:\/\/www.rawstory. \u2026 classroom-drug-raid\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1351],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}