{"id":11115,"date":"2025-03-26T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:40:50","slug":"passerby-who-killed-man-attacking-cop-learns-his-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/archives\/11115","title":{"rendered":"Passerby Who Killed Man Attacking Cop Learns His Fate."},"content":{"rendered":"
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A passerby, Ashad Russell, who intervened during an attack on a Florida sheriff\u2019s deputy, was cleared of any wrongdoing by the State Attorney\u2019s Office. Russell, 35, saw Deputy Dean Bardes being assaulted on Interstate 75. Russell, who had a concealed carry,\n

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permit, acted to protect the deputy after being instructed to do so.The State Attorney\u2019s Office determined Russell\u2019s actions were justified. Sheriff Mike Scott praised Russell\u2019s response, though Strother\u2019s brother expressed disagreement. The case was reviewed and closed with no further action..Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in February 2017\n

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A passerby, Ashad Russell, who intervened during an attack on a Florida sheriff\u2019s deputy, was cleared of any wrongdoing by the State Attorney\u2019s Office. Russell, 35, saw Deputy Dean Bardes being assaulted on Interstate 75. Russell, who had a concealed carry,\n

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permit, acted to protect the deputy after being instructed to do so.The State Attorney\u2019s Office determined Russell\u2019s actions were justified. Sheriff Mike Scott praised Russell\u2019s response, though Strother\u2019s brother expressed disagreement. The case was reviewed and closed with no further action..Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in February 2017 Read more below\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A passerby, Ashad Russell, who intervened during an attack on a Florida sheriff\u2019s deputy, was cleared of any wrongdoing by the State Attorney\u2019s Office. Russell, 35, saw Deputy Dean Bardes … \n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11117,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions\/11117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}