{"id":31480,"date":"2025-01-24T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/mississippi-police-department-hires-officer-fired-over-racist-slurs-to-latino-man\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T20:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T20:27:52","slug":"mississippi-police-department-hires-officer-fired-over-racist-slurs-to-latino-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/mississippi-police-department-hires-officer-fired-over-racist-slurs-to-latino-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi police department hires officer fired over racist slurs to Latino man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Pearl, Mississippi, say \u2018welcome aboard\u2019 to Jeremy Rast, who lost job last year from nearby Richland agency<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mississippi\">Mississippi<\/a> police department has proudly announced its hiring of an officer who was fired from another agency last summer after video captured him telling at least one Latino man that he encountered on duty to \u201cgo back to Mexico\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A social media post on Thursday from the police department of Pearl asked community members to join the agency in \u201cgiving a warm welcome\u201d to its newest member, Jeremy Rast, whose recorded comments while patrolling the streets of nearby Richland, Mississippi, in June cost him his job as an officer there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/24\/mississippi-police-officer-slurs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Pearl, Mississippi, say \u2018welcome aboard\u2019 to Jeremy Rast, who lost job last year from nearby Richland agency A Mississippi police department has proudly announced its hiring of an officer who was fired from another agency last summer after video captured him telling at least one Latino man that he encountered on duty to &#8230; <a title=\"Mississippi police department hires officer fired over racist slurs to Latino man\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/mississippi-police-department-hires-officer-fired-over-racist-slurs-to-latino-man\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mississippi police department hires officer fired over racist slurs to Latino man\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}