{"id":3863,"date":"2015-07-28T17:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T22:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2015-08-06T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T22:52:43","slug":"color-cops-and-their-issues-with-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2015\/07\/color-cops-and-their-issues-with-blackness.html","title":{"rendered":"Color, Cops and Their Issues with Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In the first clip, during a recent interview, R3 Founder and Managing Editor Andre E. Johnson talked about how police officers frame blackness. 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