{"id":257071,"date":"2016-07-20T21:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/arrests-at-flag-burning-in-cleveland\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:06:29","slug":"arrests-at-flag-burning-in-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/arrests-at-flag-burning-in-cleveland\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests at flag burning in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.07\/thumbnail\/578fe126c3618850218b4578.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 20 Jul, 2016 20:33<\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 20 Jul, 2016 21:06<\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Several people have been arrested after burning an American flag in a protest outside the Republican National Convention. Protesters claimed police used pepper spray, but the city of Cleveland has disputed that.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>There have been<em>\u00a0&#8220;a few arrests&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0after protesters refused to disperse, according to the Cleveland Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The protest appears to be lead by the Los Angeles Revolution Club.\u00a0In early\u00a0July, the club burned a flag to protest the police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.\u00a0It is a faction of the Revolutionary Communist Party, headed by Carl Dix.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two officers assaulted. Minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cleveland Police (@CLEpolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLEpolice\/status\/755866244025290756\">July 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Cleveland Police said that two officers were\u00a0<em>\u201cassaulted\u201d<\/em> and sustained <em>\u201cminor injuries.\u201d<\/em> Law enforcement and fire officials enforced a\u00a0<em>\u201cdispersal order,\u201d<\/em> forcing both demonstrators and reporters to leave the scene, declaring it a crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of police using pepper spray were disputed by the city of Cleveland on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/352360-flag-burning-arrests-pepper-spray\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 20 Jul, 2016 20:33Edited time: 20 Jul, 2016 21:06 Several people have been arrested after burning an American flag in a protest outside the Republican National Convention. Protesters claimed police used pepper spray, but the city of Cleveland has disputed that. There have been\u00a0&#8220;a few arrests&#8221;\u00a0after protesters refused to disperse, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257071","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=257071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}