{"id":105806,"date":"2020-04-20T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T03:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/plainclothes-police-seized-drone-of-mass-burial-photographer"},"modified":"2020-04-21T01:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T08:13:56","slug":"plainclothes-police-seized-drone-of-mass-burial-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/plainclothes-police-seized-drone-of-mass-burial-photographer","title":{"rendered":"Plainclothes police seized drone of mass-burial photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aY4K1wo6uaM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the world was stunned by drone photos and videos of mass burials of COVID-19 victims on an island that is part of the Bronx, in New York City. Last week, renowned photographer George Steinmetz set out to capture his own images, but police seized his drone. And now we have more details of how that went down. \u201cThese are humans, and they\u2019re basically being treated like they\u2019re toxic waste, like they\u2019re radioactive,\u201d Steinmetz told Gothamist about the people buried on Hart Island. The island has served as a potter\u2019s field for New York\u2019s unclaimed and anonymous dead since the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Correction, which oversees Hart Island, would not provide an exact number of people buried on the island, but a spokesperson said it was as high as 47 people on a single day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, the world was stunned by drone photos and videos of mass burials of COVID-19 victims on an island that is part of the Bronx, in New York City. Last week, renowned photographer George Steinmetz set out to capture his own images, but police seized his drone. And now we have more details [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105816,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105806\/revisions\/105816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}