{"id":47561,"date":"2023-01-29T17:09:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T22:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=47561"},"modified":"2023-01-29T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T22:12:08","slug":"community-mourns-loss-of-georgia-police-officer-who-died-in-the-line-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=47561","title":{"rendered":"Community mourns loss of Georgia police officer who died in the line of duty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Georgia Department of Public Safety confirmed the death of Master Patrol Officer Clarence &#8220;CJ&#8221; Williams of the Cairo Police Department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officer Williams died while on-duty yesterday afternoon, leaving a void in the community he dedicated himself to serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A beloved member of the Cairo Police Dept., Williams joined the department in 2020 and quickly gained the respect and admiration of his colleagues and the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will be remembered for his passion for serving others and his commitment to the safety of the Cairo community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cairo Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigations are currently investigating the circumstances of his death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department and the GBI expressed their condolences to Officer Williams&#8217; family, friends, and coworkers and ask that everyone keep them in their thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia Department of Public Safety confirmed the death of Master Patrol Officer Clarence &#8220;CJ&#8221; Williams of the Cairo Police Department. Officer Williams died while on-duty yesterday afternoon, leaving a void in the community he dedicated himself to serving. A beloved member of the Cairo Police Dept., Williams joined the department in 2020 and quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[9814,8910,10774],"class_list":["post-47561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia-people","tag-cairo","tag-grady-county","tag-southwest-georgia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}