{"id":260779,"date":"2016-08-09T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-york-protesters-stage-rally-against-police-violence-on-blacks\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T21:05:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T21:05:40","slug":"new-york-protesters-stage-rally-against-police-violence-on-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/new-york-protesters-stage-rally-against-police-violence-on-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"New York protesters stage rally against police violence on blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US protesters have staged a rally in New York City to slam police brutality and raise awareness about what they call institutionalized racism in law enforcement departments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 100 protesters occupied a transit center near New York City Hall on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were chanting,\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t need these killer cops on our streets, on our blocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rally coincided with the second anniversary of the shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LX1tXwoNDn0?rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing spate of police killings of African\u00a0Americans has sparked anger and protests throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The latest demonstration came amid renewed anger over the fatal shooting of several young African-American men by police around the US.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20160809\/1974db7b-640e-45a5-9a6d-53e512163000.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Activists participate in an anti-police brutality protest in City Hall Park in New York City on August 01, 2016. (AFP photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On July 5, Alton Sterling was fatally shot during a struggle with officers in Baton&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/08\/09\/479212\/US-New-York-protest-blacks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US protesters have staged a rally in New York City to slam police brutality and raise awareness about what they call institutionalized racism in law enforcement departments. About 100 protesters occupied a transit center near New York City Hall on Monday. The protesters were chanting,\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t need these killer cops on our streets, on our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-260779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260779","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=260779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}