{"id":315737,"date":"2014-10-10T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=315737"},"modified":"2014-10-12T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T13:39:48","slug":"police-racial-slur-leads-to-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=315737","title":{"rendered":"Police: Racial Slur Leads to Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/10\/devonteballardmug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/10\/devonteballardmug-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"devonteballardmug\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-315738\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 A Longview man is behind bars for allegedly hitting his girlfriend after she reportedly used a racial slur.   According to KETK, judicial records indicate Devonte Ballard, 22, was arrested Thursday at a residence in the 1000 block of Oden Street near Timpson Park.  The probable cause report states police saw Ballard&#8217;s girlfriend on the porch with a large, bloody gash on her swollen eye. According to police, Ballard&#8217;s girlfriend called him the slur and as a response, Ballard hit her.   The medical staff on hand said there is a strong chance the woman&#8217;s eye socket is fractured.  Ballard was booked into the Gregg County Jail on a single count of aggravated assault causing bodily injury. His bond has been set at $10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 A Longview man is behind bars for allegedly hitting his girlfriend after she reportedly used a racial slur. According to KETK, judicial records indicate Devonte Ballard, 22, was arrested Thursday at a residence in the 1000 block of Oden Street near Timpson Park. The probable cause report states police saw Ballard&#8217;s girlfriend on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=315737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police: Racial Slur Leads to Attack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 23:05:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315739,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315737\/revisions\/315739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}