{"id":256580,"date":"2016-07-18T09:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/death-of-black-teen-sparks-protests-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:20:58","slug":"death-of-black-teen-sparks-protests-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/death-of-black-teen-sparks-protests-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of black teen sparks protests in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"81\">\n<p><strong>Hundreds of protesters have held a rally in Liverpool, England, following the death of a black teenager while he was in the custody of police in Merseyside County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 300 protesters marched on Sunday from the city\u2019s main train station to the &#8216;Liverpool One&#8217; shopping centre, where Mzee Mohammed was detained on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was held as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has been rapidly spreading across the US and UK following the killing of two African-American men by US police.<\/p>\n<p>Chants of \u201cBlack Lives Matter, Mzee\u2019s Life Mattered\u201d were shouted out as the rally \u00a0through the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed, 18, was detained at the Liverpool shopping centre following unconfirmed reports that he was carrying a knife and acting in an \u201caggressive and erratic manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police he suffered a medical episode while in custody at the scene bit didn&#8217;t elaborate on the exact cause of his death.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager\u2019s mother has criticized the police&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/18\/475739\/England-Liverpool-protest-Mzee-Mohammed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of protesters have held a rally in Liverpool, England, following the death of a black teenager while he was in the custody of police in Merseyside County. About 300 protesters marched on Sunday from the city\u2019s main train station to the &#8216;Liverpool One&#8217; shopping centre, where Mzee Mohammed was detained on Wednesday. The protest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}