{"id":142037,"date":"2015-08-10T05:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=142037"},"modified":"2015-08-10T05:35:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T05:35:53","slug":"gunfire-erupts-at-ferguson-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=142037","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire erupts at Ferguson protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police in Ferguson, Missouri, have reported heavy gunfire at a protest on the first anniversary of the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">St Louis County police said an officer was &#8220;involved in a shooting after coming under heavy gunfire&#8221; and that &#8220;two unmarked cars took shots&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The violence came at the end of a sombre, peaceful day of commemorations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shooting of the 18 year old by white police officer Darren Wilson sparked demonstrations across America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It fuelled a national protest movement against racial bias by the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Sunday, hundreds of people stood silent for four and a half minutes at the spot where Michael Brown was killed, representing the number of hours that his body lay in the street, unattended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Ferguson, Missouri, have reported heavy gunfire at a protest on the first anniversary of the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. St Louis County police said an officer was &#8220;involved in a shooting after coming under heavy gunfire&#8221; and that &#8220;two unmarked cars took shots&#8221;. The violence came at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":142038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-142037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}