{"id":525765,"date":"2010-04-13T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133eca5d0e0970b"},"modified":"2010-04-13T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:54:04","slug":"being-a-gay-cop-in-orange-county-brought-abuse-ex-officer-writes-in-tell-all-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525765","title":{"rendered":"Being a gay cop in Orange County brought abuse, ex-officer writes in tell-all book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/images.townnews.com\/hbindependent.com\/content\/articles\/2010\/04\/12\/top_stories\/hbi-bereki041510.jpg\" style=\"float: right; width: 200px; margin: 6px;\"><\/img>Adam Bereki calls his new book a true account about being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbindependent.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/12\/top_stories\/hbi-bereki041510.txt\">a gay cop in Orange County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Huntington Beach&#8217;s police chief calls it fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Bereki, a former Huntington Beach police officer who in 2008 settled a harassment<br \/>\nlawsuit against the city, has released a book about his experiences as a<br \/>\ngay Surf City cop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriendly Fire: The Illusion of Justice\u201d\u00a0 purports to tell \u00a0\u201cwhat it felt like being a young gay man in a macho, homophobic<br \/>\nprofession,\u201d he wrote in his book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough California is viewed<br \/>\nby much of the country as one of the more gay-friendly states in the<br \/>\nunion, the Huntington Beach Police department seemingly occupies an<br \/>\nisland of its own, pinned in a period of time that runs prior to<br \/>\nenlightenment,\u201d Bereki wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In the book, Bereki, who received a $150,000 settlement after he left the department, claims that taunts about his sexual orientation crippled his physical and emotional well-being.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/br>Huntington Beach Police Chief Ken<br \/>\nSmall, who was chief during Bereki\u2019s time on the force, said he had<br \/>\nread excerpts of the book and that it has \u201cno basis in fact.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cI think it belongs in the fiction section,\u201d Small told the Huntington Beach Independent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbindependent.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/12\/top_stories\/hbi-bereki041510.txt\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Britney Barnes<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Adam Bereki. Credit: Special to the Huntington Beach Independent via Starlight Photography<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Bereki calls his new book a true account about being a gay cop in Orange County. Huntington Beach&#8217;s police chief calls it fiction. Bereki, a former Huntington Beach police officer who in 2008 settled a harassment lawsuit against the city, has released a book about his experiences as a gay Surf City cop. \u201cFriendly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525765","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\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}