{"id":54092,"date":"2014-07-22T11:24:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54092"},"modified":"2014-07-22T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:24:32","slug":"tn-vet-arrested-for-asking-board-to-speak-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54092","title":{"rendered":"TN vet arrested for asking board to speak up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/wate.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=205586;hostDomain=www.wate.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=10383267;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay;galleryType=wnstory;galleryId=26053937'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wate.com\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wate.com\/story\/26053937\/two-ousted-from-us-nitrogen-pipeline-meeting-in-greene-county\">WATE<\/a> which tells the story of Eddie Bruce Overholt of Greeneville, Tennessee who went to a local board hearing about allowing a chemical to build a new plant and dump it&#8217;s waste in a local river. <\/p>\n<p>According to Overholt, he was under the impression that he would be able to speak at the meeting and voice his concerns about their plans, but he couldn&#8217;t hear the board&#8217;s discussions;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The board met up at the front of the room at a big table, had us roped off, and they were talking so low nobody could hear,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He says all he did was ask the board members to speak up, and he was accused of disrupting the meeting and led out in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>Overholt was also charged with resisting arrest and was put in jail on a $2,000 bond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to WATE which tells the story of Eddie Bruce Overholt &hellip; <a title=\"TN vet arrested for asking board to speak up\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54092\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TN vet arrested for asking board to speak up<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54092","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=54092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}