{"id":14740,"date":"2019-04-24T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02819f3c400b2568"},"modified":"2025-02-27T00:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:35:23","slug":"video-man-killed-by-police-after-fighting-and-robbing-church-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/video-man-killed-by-police-after-fighting-and-robbing-church-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: MAN KILLED BY POLICE AFTER FIGHTING AND ROBBING CHURCH PASTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On January 16, 2019 officers in Charlotte, NC were circulating the area when K-9 Officer Timothy Kiefer observed Michael standing on a sidewalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" autoplay controls loop src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/trimmm-OIS-Michael-Daniel-Kelly-BWC-footage-from-Ofc.-Kiefer-Trim.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Officer Kiefer exited his patrol vehicle and observed Michael step out from behind a dumpster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/charlottealerts\/robbery\/man-robs-church-pastor-with-knife-and-then-gets-killed-by-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Officer Kiefer gave Michael several loud verbal commands<\/a>; however, Michael began rapidly moving toward Officer Kiefer, holding in his right hand what Officer Kiefer thought was either a gun or a knife. Michael continued progressing quickly toward Officer Kiefer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officer Kiefer discharged his firearm several times, striking Michael. Michael was transported to Atrium Health where he was pronounced deceased a short time later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After punching a pastor and carjacking him, Michael Kelley threatened to shoot a CMPD police officer and was killed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18610,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740\/revisions\/18610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}