{"id":524781,"date":"2010-04-12T13:26:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004401"},"modified":"2010-04-12T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:00:42","slug":"sheriffs-deputy-uses-stun-gun-on-30-high-schoolers-at-job-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/524781","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff&#8217;s Deputy Uses Stun Gun On 30 High Schoolers At Job Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/taser-thumb-266x343-39192.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is the real reason <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/job-fair-canceled-even-though-there-are-jobs-to-be-had.html\" >job fairs are being cancelled<\/a>: A sheriff&#8217;s deputy in Colorado has been suspended after using his taser on 30 high school students at a job fair last week. And it wasn&#8217;t a case of overzealous policing; the students volunteered!<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the deputy has been suspended for one week with pay after demonstrating his taser on willing high school students at the job fair.<\/p>\n<p>One student was treated at the hospital following the tasing, while others had burns of varying degrees. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities are considering whether to file criminal charges, but we have to ask: If the kids volunteered, did the deputy do anything wrong? Or perhaps a job fair was not the most appropriate place to demo his stun gun?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/2010\/04\/09\/2010-04-09_stunning_cop_tasers_30_students_at_job_fair.html\" >Stunning: Cop tasers 30 students at job fair<\/a> [Daily News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe this is the real reason job fairs are being cancelled: A sheriff&#8217;s deputy in Colorado has been suspended after using his taser on 30 high school students at a job fair last week. And it wasn&#8217;t a case of overzealous policing; the students volunteered! According to reports, the deputy has been suspended for one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}