{"id":1026766,"date":"2023-03-15T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=a4cbfd5fa1a7c35bf59738fc51c7bc6e"},"modified":"2023-03-15T21:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:09:14","slug":"aclu-sues-us-for-using-military-grade-helicopters-to-quell-george-floyd-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/15\/aclu-sues-us-for-using-military-grade-helicopters-to-quell-george-floyd-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Sues US for Using Military-Grade Helicopters to Quell George Floyd Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the U.S. government over the use of low-flying, military-grade helicopters used to disturb and disperse protesters during the 2020 uprisings following the police murder of George Floyd. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of plaintiff Dzhuliya Dashtamirova, a participant in the protests who said that she...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/aclu-sues-us-for-using-military-grade-helicopters-to-quell-george-floyd-protests\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/aclu-sues-us-for-using-military-grade-helicopters-to-quell-george-floyd-protests\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June of 2020, the National Guard deployed two military helicopters against protesters in D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22667,28807,1348,1230,1415,19754,16158,4,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026767,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026766\/revisions\/1026767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}