{"id":103018,"date":"2020-05-31T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103018"},"modified":"2020-05-31T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:44:53","slug":"shocking-video-shows-violent-protesters-drag-chicago-police-officers-through-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/31\/shocking-video-shows-violent-protesters-drag-chicago-police-officers-through-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking video shows violent protesters drag Chicago police officers through street"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy the Blaze<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Two Chicago police officers were surrounded by protesters on Saturday \u2014 and then briefly dragged through the street.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/newsletters\/theblaze-textlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ditch the fake news ==&gt; Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It&#8217;s free!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video footage of the incident shows two Chicago police officers attempting to arrest a protester. However, the officers were greatly outnumbered and surrounding demonstrators quickly attacked them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The footage shows protesters hit and drag the officers, one of whom, a female officer, was dragged about 10 feet through the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A third officer then rushed into the chaotic scene to protect his fellow officers. But the protesters also attacked him, throwing various projectiles and fluids at the officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/shocking-video-shows-violent-chicago-protesters-drag-three-police-officers-through-street\">https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/shocking-video-shows-violent-chicago-protesters-drag-three-police-officers-through-street<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy the Blaze Two Chicago police officers were surrounded by protesters on Saturday \u2014 and then briefly dragged through the street.Ditch the fake news ==&gt; Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It&#8217;s free! Video footage of the incident shows two Chicago police officers attempting to arrest a protester. [&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-103018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103018","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=103018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}