{"id":1861,"date":"2014-11-20T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2014-11-20T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T21:21:14","slug":"police-arrest-protesters-as-ferguson-awaits-grand-jury-decision-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest protesters as Ferguson awaits grand jury decision | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/20\/us-usa-missouri-shooting-idUSKCN0J315K20141120\">Police arrest protesters as Ferguson awaits grand jury decision | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">(Reuters) &#8211; Police arrested five people in Ferguson, Missouri, overnight after they tried to block a street in a protest calling for a grand jury to charge a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen in August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">A few dozen demonstrators, some chanting: &#8220;Indict that cop,&#8221; gathered outside the Ferguson police station late on Wednesday in sub-freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">They were faced by officers in riot gear. The arrests were the first in about a week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">The grand jury has been meeting for three months to determine whether police officer Darren Wilson broke the law when he shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in an incident that exposed long-simmering racial tensions in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrest protesters as Ferguson awaits grand jury decision | Reuters. (Reuters) &#8211; Police arrested five people in Ferguson, Missouri, overnight after they tried to block a street in a protest calling for a grand jury to charge a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen in August. A few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[308,519,533,635,656],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ferguson","tag-michael-brown","tag-missouri","tag-police-state","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}