{"id":10763,"date":"2016-09-29T11:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10763"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:04:52","slug":"us-police-shoot-mentally-ill-ugandan-refugee-dead-for-after-mistaking-e-cigarette-for-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10763","title":{"rendered":"US Police Shoot Mentally ill Ugandan Refugee Dead for After Mistaking e-Cigarette for Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-37503048\"> BBC News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police in California say they shot a Ugandan refugee dead when he pulled an object that turned out to be an e-cigarette from his pocket and pointed it at a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of demonstrators have taken to the streets of El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, to protest over the killing of Alfred Okwera Olango, 38.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Olango was killed on Tuesday after officers responded to a call from his sister who said that he needed help. She said he was mentally unwell.<\/p>\n<p>El Cajon police Chief Jeff Davis said Mr. Olango died after one officer fired an electronic stun gun and another officer simultaneously fired his firearm several times.<\/p>\n<p>Police, who had already acknowledged that the object was not a weapon, confirmed on Wednesday that the object was a three inches (7.6cm) long silver vaping cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a class=\"owner-name truncate no-outline\" title=\"Go to Victoria Pickering's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vpickering\/\">Victoria Pickering<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: BBC News. Police in California say they shot a Ugandan refugee dead when he pulled an object that turned out to be an e-cigarette from his pocket and pointed it at a police officer. Dozens of demonstrators have taken<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10763\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[4975,4932,4931],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/US-Police-Shoot-Mentally-ill-Ugandan-Refugee-Dead-for-After-Mistaking-e-Cigarette-for-Gun.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10767,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions\/10767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}