{"id":416118,"date":"2021-12-03T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=227311"},"modified":"2021-12-03T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:00:47","slug":"favor-and-affection-from-glynn-county-georgia-to-kenosha-wisconsin-police-vigilante-collusion-is-a-far-bigger-story-than-the-verdicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/03\/favor-and-affection-from-glynn-county-georgia-to-kenosha-wisconsin-police-vigilante-collusion-is-a-far-bigger-story-than-the-verdicts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFavor and Affection:\u201d From Glynn County, Georgia to Kenosha, Wisconsin, Police\/Vigilante Collusion is a Far Bigger Story Than The Verdicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mathewson, a former Kenosha politician and self-styled \u201ccommander\u201d of the \u201cKenosha Guard\u201d circulated a call to action on Facebook recruiting would-be vigilantes to oppose the protesters. Did the police counteract the command from a militia leader?\u00a0No, but, the police did use, \u201crubber\u201d bullets, tear gas, flash-bang grenades and armored vehicles to drive protestors into the hands of the vigilantes \u2014 including their most famous pawn Rittenhouse. \u201cKettling\u201d has become a common police tactic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/03\/favor-and-affection-from-glynn-county-georgia-to-kenosha-wisconsin-police-vigilante-collusion-is-a-far-bigger-story-than-the-verdicts\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/03\/favor-and-affection-from-glynn-county-georgia-to-kenosha-wisconsin-police-vigilante-collusion-is-a-far-bigger-story-than-the-verdicts\/\">&#8220;Favor and Affection:&#8221; From Glynn County, Georgia to Kenosha, Wisconsin, Police\/Vigilante Collusion is a Far Bigger Story Than The Verdicts<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/03\/favor-and-affection-from-glynn-county-georgia-to-kenosha-wisconsin-police-vigilante-collusion-is-a-far-bigger-story-than-the-verdicts\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mathewson, a former Kenosha politician and self-styled \u201ccommander\u201d of the \u201cKenosha Guard\u201d circulated a call to action on Facebook recruiting would-be vigilantes to oppose the protesters. Did the police counteract the command from a militia leader&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416118"}],"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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416955,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416118\/revisions\/416955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}