{"id":26162,"date":"2022-10-11T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=26162"},"modified":"2022-10-11T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:23:52","slug":"did-you-know-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/10\/11\/did-you-know-136\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"343\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/David-Berkman.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/David-Berkman.png 608w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/David-Berkman-300x169.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know that a Florida mayor was arrested after Hurricane Ian for beating another man with a rake during a park cleanup?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A police spokesperson said that the mayor of Indialantic, 59-year-old David Berkman used a rake to strike another man across the face. Both the mayor and the individual whom the mayor allegedly had stricken with the rake were assisting with a cleanup at Orlando Park after Hurricane Ian. The victim was said to be filming Mayor Berkman on his phone at a pavilion in the park after Berman made several comments about \u2018kicking his a**.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police did not immediately release the root issue of the alleged attack by Berkman, but stated that the victim\u2019s cellphone video lined up with the victim\u2019s statements to the officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim stated to officers that he wished to pursue criminal charges against Mayor Berkman. He was arrested and faces misdemeanor battery charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Berkman is currently out on $500 bond.&nbsp; He is due to appear in court on October 31<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that a Florida mayor was arrested after Hurricane Ian for beating another man with a rake during a park cleanup? A police spokesperson said&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[319],"class_list":["post-26162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-did-you-know"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}