{"id":3610,"date":"2016-04-08T10:18:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:18:34","slug":"fired-indiana-police-officer-brian-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"Fired: Indiana police officer Brian Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mentally ill Indiana State Trooper with a compulsive need to preach to anybody he pulled over on a traffic stop has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/04\/07\/trooper-sued-for-proselytizing-during-a-traffic-stop-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">fired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Indiana State Police trooper Brian Hamilton pulled over Wendy Pyle in January, according to a lawsuit filed this week. He told Pyle that she had been speeding, went back to his patrol car and returned with a warning ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the lawsuit alleges, Hamilton asked Pyle where she attended church \u2014 and whether she had been \u201csaved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Pyle was extremely uncomfortable with these questions,\u201d the complaint for damages states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, this is a guy without a firm grip on reality and his responsibilities.  Good riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mentally ill Indiana State Trooper with a compulsive need to preach to anybody he pulled over on a traffic stop has been fired. Indiana State Police trooper Brian Hamilton pulled over Wendy Pyle in January, according to a lawsuit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}