{"id":7756,"date":"2020-06-03T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2020-06-03T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:41:03","slug":"polk-county-sheriff-highly-recommending-people-to-shoot-looters-who-break-into-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/06\/03\/polk-county-sheriff-highly-recommending-people-to-shoot-looters-who-break-into-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County Sheriff \u2018highly recommending\u2019 people to shoot looters who break into homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Grady-Judd.jpg?fit=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Grady-Judd.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Grady-Judd-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Grady-Judd-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Grady-Judd-768x384.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd issued the warning to potential looters in a Facebook post on the sheriff\u2019s office Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you value your life, they probably shouldn\u2019t do that in Polk County. Because the people of Polk County like guns, they have guns, I encourage them to own guns, and they\u2019re going to be in their homes tonight with their guns loaded, and if you try to break into their homes to steal, to set fires, I\u2019m highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns. So, leave the community alone,\u201d Judd said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judd encouraged peaceful protesting in the central Florida county, and he said there haven\u2019t been any cases of protest-related violence so far. But that didn\u2019t stop him from issuing the stern warning on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor those who want to come in, stealthily, among those wonderful people who are simply making their position known, the ones that tried to infiltrate, we are going to hunt you down and lock you up if you engage in any criminal conduct,&#8221; the sheriff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd issued the warning to potential looters in a Facebook post on the sheriff\u2019s office Facebook page. \u201cIf you value your life, they probably shouldn\u2019t do&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7757,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","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=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}