{"id":103015,"date":"2020-05-31T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103015"},"modified":"2020-05-31T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:39:52","slug":"watch-young-black-couple-tasered-and-pulled-from-car-by-mob-of-atlanta-police-for-reportedly-breaking-curfew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/31\/watch-young-black-couple-tasered-and-pulled-from-car-by-mob-of-atlanta-police-for-reportedly-breaking-curfew\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Young Black couple Tasered and pulled from car by mob of Atlanta police for reportedly breaking curfew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mvp-author-info-wrap left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-author-info-text left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-author-info-name left relative\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Posts by Tom Boggioni\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/author\/tomboggioni\/\" rel=\"author\">Tom Boggioni Courtesy rawstory.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1266941939502456833\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1266941939502456833<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video captured by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs46.com\/apd-use-taser-to-get-driver-out-of-car\/video_60cd66da-2301-5fd7-ae1a-618efe1cac20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBS46<\/a>, a young Black couple can be seen being pulled over by Atlanta law enforcement officers because they were reportedly out after curfew, only to be shot with Tasers, then pulled from the car and put in restraints after being yanked out of their car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atlanta joined a host of cities to institute a curfew as protests over the killing of George Floyd have swept across the country, leading to clashes with police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video, the young woman is Tasered and pulled from the car while the man is Tasered after police shattered his driver-side window with a baton.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kindest.com\/campaign\/raw-story-investigates-invest-in-courageous-progressive-journalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Defend democracy. Click to invest in courageous progressive journalism today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Boggioni Courtesy rawstory.com https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1266941939502456833 In a video captured by&nbsp;CBS46, a young Black couple can be seen being pulled over by Atlanta law enforcement officers because they were reportedly out after curfew, only to be shot with Tasers, then pulled from the car and put in restraints after being yanked out of their car. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}