{"id":35836,"date":"2021-06-01T13:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35836"},"modified":"2021-06-01T13:22:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:22:01","slug":"mcconnell-signals-concern-over-changes-to-qualified-immunity-in-police-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35836","title":{"rendered":"McConnell signals concern over changes to qualified immunity in police reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Senate GOP Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) signaled concerns on Tuesday about changes to a legal shield for police officers \u2014 a major sticking point in bipartisan police reform negotiations on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole problem it seems to me in this whole area of police reform &#8230; is without qualified immunity, how do you get people to do law enforcement work?&#8221; McConnell said at a stop in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re grappling with that issue in Washington,&#8221; McConnell added.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate GOP Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) signaled concerns&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35837,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35836\/revisions\/35837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}