{"id":826,"date":"2014-12-08T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2014-12-08T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T22:36:22","slug":"every-mothers-son-on-pbs-pov-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/08\/every-mothers-son-on-pbs-pov-site\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Every Mother&#8217;s Son&#8221; on PBS POV Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365355890\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every Mother&#8217;s Son&#8221; profiles three New York mothers who unexpectedly find themselves united to seek justice and transform their grief into an opportunity for profound social change.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades ago \u201cbetween 1994 and 1999, 107 civilian killing by police occurred in New York City under circumstances that community groups felt represented an overuse of force.\u201d  Unfortunately, again, this situation does not appear to change.  The 2004 documentary \u201cEvery Mother\u2019s Son\u201d features the mothers of the following innocent, unarmed men who were killed by the police:<\/p>\n<p>1994 The murder of Anthony Baez by Francis X. Livoti in the Bronx<\/p>\n<p>1999 Amadou Diallo shot 19 times by Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss<\/p>\n<p>1999 Gary \u201cGidone\u201d Busch shot 12 times by four officers<\/p>\n<p>The film opens with the death of Anthony Baez who died due to a choke hold by Officer Livoti, at times it feels as if little changes in our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every Mother&#8217;s Son&#8221; profiles three New York mothers who unexpectedly find themselves united to seek justice and transform their grief into an opportunity for profound social change. Two decades ago \u201cbetween 1994 and 1999, 107 civilian killing by police occurred in New York City under circumstances that community groups felt represented an overuse of force.\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,307,116],"tags":[324],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical_perspectives","category-documentary-2","category-politics","tag-police-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}