{"id":17162,"date":"2023-01-27T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=17162"},"modified":"2023-01-29T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:11:30","slug":"sen-ossoff-statement-on-mr-tyre-nichols","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-statement-on-mr-tyre-nichols\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Sen. Ossoff Statement on Mr. Tyre Nichols<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe horrific&nbsp;killing&nbsp;of Tyre Nichols in Memphis has once again shaken the nation\u2019s conscience. Mr. Nichols and his family deserve justice.<br><br>\u201cThose who are sworn to protect and serve must be held to the highest standards of accountability. Whether on our streets or in our prisons and jails, brutal disregard for human rights offends the principles enshrined in our Constitution. I continue to call for Federal legislation to establish national standards for the use of force by law enforcement.<br><br>\u201cI call on all engaged in protest to remain peaceful.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement. \u201cThe horrific&nbsp;killing&nbsp;of Tyre Nichols in Memphis has once again shaken the nation\u2019s conscience. Mr. Nichols and his family deserve justice. \u201cThose who are sworn to protect and serve must be held to the highest standards of accountability. Whether on our streets or in our prisons [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17162","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/17162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/17162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17164,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/17162\/revisions\/17164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}