{"id":222224,"date":"2026-03-16T15:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222224\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:43:15","slug":"brickbat-without-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222224\/","title":{"rendered":"Brickbat: Without Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City officials in Bakersfield, California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/bakersfield-record-settlement-crash-21943937.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agreed<\/a> to a record $22 million settlement after a police officer caused a deadly crash in 2023. Ricardo Robles, an officer at the time, drove at least 80 miles per hour through a stop sign without turning on his sirens and crashed into another car, killing driver Mario Lares and seriously injuring passenger Ana Hernandez. Lares&#8217; family and Hernandez sued the city, arguing that the officer ignored safety rules while on duty. In 2024, Robles pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter, but the court <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/ex-bakersfield-officer-sentenced-one-day-in-jail-probation-for-deadly-2023-crash-court-crime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced<\/a> him to just one day in jail and two years of probation, along with community service and restitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City officials in Bakersfield, California, agreed to a record $22 million settlement after a police officer caused a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4846,151,153,152,101509,7],"class_list":["post-222224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-accidents","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-brickbats","tag-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}