{"id":738,"date":"2013-09-16T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T02:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=738"},"modified":"2013-12-27T11:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T16:47:52","slug":"remembering-michael-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/09\/16\/remembering-michael-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Michael Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/NYC-train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-844\" title=\"NYC train\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/NYC-train-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/NYC-train-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/NYC-train-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/NYC-train-800x539.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/NYC-train.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just wrote <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\/2013\/09\/16\/221821224\/it-could-have-been-me-the-1983-death-of-a-nyc-graffiti-artist\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">this piece<\/span><\/a><\/span> for NPR on the murder of Michael Stewart, an aspiring artist and model who was beaten to death by NY Transit Police exactly 30 years ago. \u00a0His crime? He was supposedly tagging a subway station wall. \u00a0The story includes the horrific details of his death, the injustice that followed, and a broader discussion of hip hop and policing. \u00a0I end with the words of his mother, whom I reluctantly contacted (afraid I&#8217;d stir up emotions she wanted left alone). \u00a0I promised her I&#8217;d do my best to get her son&#8217;s story out there, and this is the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote this piece for NPR on the murder of Michael Stewart, an aspiring artist and model who was beaten to death by NY Transit Police exactly 30 years ago. \u00a0His crime? He was supposedly tagging a subway station wall. \u00a0The story includes the horrific details of his death, the injustice that followed, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/09\/16\/remembering-michael-stewart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering Michael Stewart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}