{"id":6268,"date":"2017-03-17T05:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2017-03-17T05:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:53:25","slug":"bystander-shot-killed-man-beating-police-officer-middle-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/03\/17\/bystander-shot-killed-man-beating-police-officer-middle-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystander shot and killed man who was beating up police officer in the middle of the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Samaritan has been called a hero after he shot dead a man who\u00a0was beating up a police officer.\u00a0 Ashad Russell was filmed as suspect Edward Strother rained punches down on Deputy Dean Barde in\u00a0Estero, Florida following a police chase.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Police released the footage showing the cop being beaten as Russell approached.\u00a0Officer Barde can be heard shouting \u2018Shoot him! Shoot him!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He fired three shots, killing Strother who was\u00a0pronounced dead at hospital.\u00a0Around a dozen phones were used to film the incident. Not a single call was made to 911.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Metro Embed Video Player\" src=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/video\/embed\/1430981\" width=\"540\" height=\"353\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The incident happened in November, but footage has now been made public.<\/p>\n<p>At the time Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott wrote on Facebook: \u2018Earlier this week, two heroes met on I-75 and while they had never met before, one would save the others life.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u2018Ironically, this was the first day in a while that Deputy Bardes was alone on patrol because as a Field Training Officer, he typically has a recruit riding with him to learn the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I thank the hero that recognized the imminent threat, rushed to Deputy Bardes\u2019 aid, and ultimately stopped that threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In a day and age where race is a near instant focus for media and other pundits in police incidents, the fact is that this hero happens to be a man of color who stopped another man of color from further harming or killing a white cop; thereby reminding us that black lives matter, blue lives matter, and indeed all life matters.\u2019<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By\u00a0 <span class=\"byline\"><a class=\"author url fn\" href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/author\/richard-hartley-parkinson\/\" rel=\"author\">Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2017\/03\/17\/bystander-shot-and-killed-man-who-was-beating-up-police-officer-in-the-middle-of-the-road-6514875\/\" target=\"_blank\">metro.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Good Samaritan has been called a hero after he shot dead a man who\u00a0was beating up a police officer.\u00a0 Ashad Russell was filmed as suspect Edward Strother rained punches down on Deputy Dean Barde in\u00a0Estero, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/03\/17\/bystander-shot-killed-man-beating-police-officer-middle-road\/\" title=\"Bystander shot and killed man who was beating up police officer in the middle of the road\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[417],"class_list":{"0":"post-6268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-florida","10":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6273,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}