{"id":13013,"date":"2018-09-03T05:48:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T10:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/?p=13013"},"modified":"2018-09-04T06:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T11:10:22","slug":"bear-creek-police-chief-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/bear-creek-police-chief-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Creek Police Chief Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13014\" src=\"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Shane-Whitten.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With his permission, the following is a statement from Facebook by Shane Whitten:<\/p>\n<p>First I want to say I love Bear Creek and I hate to see all the crap going on that is destroying our town. With that being said I have decided to hang up my badge and try something new in life that will be a better fit for me and my family. I loved being the Chief of Bear Creek and serving the great citizens of Bear Creek. I\u2019m sad to leave but I\u2019m excited the start of this new chapter in my life. It\u2019s been a very long and thought out process. Lots of prayers and talking to god ab<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">out what was best for me and my family and I feel this is where he is leading me. Thanks to everyone that supported me for the last 5 years it means the world to me. Thanks to Mayor Connie Bishop Morrison for the great opportunity of being police chief and always having my back. Also thanks to the city council for always having my back and getting us the equipment we needed to do the job especially Chris Gillum. And before it gets started I shouldn\u2019t even have to do this but I\u2019m not leaving bc I\u2019m going to jail or I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m going to jail. It\u2019s not because I don\u2019t want to do my job. This has been in the works way before this stuff came out. I love bear creek and I wish everyone the best. I\u2019m going to be a Millwright and learn some new trades.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his permission, the following is a statement from Facebook by Shane Whitten: First I want to say I love Bear Creek and I hate to see all the crap going on that is destroying our town. With that being said I have decided to hang up my badge and try something new in life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13017,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13013\/revisions\/13017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}