{"id":28507,"date":"2012-01-28T17:21:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T21:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28507"},"modified":"2012-01-28T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T21:21:34","slug":"vet-as-a-phony-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28507","title":{"rendered":"Vet as a phony cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blanka sends us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/iraq-war-veteran-accused-of-donning-badge-taser-and-gun-while-posing-for-year-as-ore-officer\/2012\/01\/27\/gIQAmsQMWQ_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> story about Daniel S. Alloway who put on a badge, a siren on his SUV and started policing his community;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eugene Police Officer Dan Baker drove a blue SUV and set off sirens to clear cars in front of him at traffic lights. He pulled over motorists \u2014 though it\u2019s unclear if he ever gave out tickets. And when he stopped by a youth shelter as a volunteer, he came in full uniform.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just one problem: There has never been an Officer Dan Baker in the Eugene Police Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>AKO says he is a Guardsman, a Specialist E-4, in the Oregon National Guard unit, CO.A 2-162 Infantry ORARNG. But suddenly, in the 9th Circuit&#8217;s jusridiction, it not free speech to put on a uniform and act like someone you&#8217;re not;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPeople get automatic credential with the public [in a police uniform],\u201d McKee said. \u201cSomebody could use that to isolate a person, a 16-year-old, and that is dangerous.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that could never happen in a military uniform, could it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alloway, 39&#8230;was deployed three times to Iraq, in 2004, 2007 and 2009, serving a year tour each time. An Oregon Military Department spokesman said Alloway received service awards for each tour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three tours to Iraq and he&#8217;s still an E-4? It doesn&#8217;t look like he was wired too tightly in the Guard, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanka sends us a link to a Washington Post story about Daniel S. Alloway who put &hellip; <a title=\"Vet as a phony cop\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28507\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vet as a phony cop<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}