{"id":290993,"date":"2017-01-20T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/police-arrest-over-90-anti-trump-protesters-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:02:03","slug":"police-arrest-over-90-anti-trump-protesters-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/police-arrest-over-90-anti-trump-protesters-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest over 90 anti-Trump protesters in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>More than 90 protesters have been arrested in demonstrations during US President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration in Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have arrested approximately 95 people,&#8221; said Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Lt. Sean Conboy on Friday. They were arrested for &#8220;vandalism and destruction of property.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Around 500 people, wearing masks, marched through the city\u2019s downtown with some of them smashing windows and blocking traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Officers in riot gear used pepper spray, tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd, some of whom were armed with crowbars and hammers, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170120\/41a538b4-1463-481c-8e72-81d05ae2c325.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Police officers pepper spray a group of protesters in Washington on January 20, 2017. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two officers were injured while they were trying to arrest some protesters, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters chanted anti-Trump slogans and carried signs, reading \u201cMake Racists Afraid Again,\u201d a play on the New York businessman-turned-politician&#8217;s \u201cMake America&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/20\/507054\/US-Trump-inauguration-protests-Washington\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 90 protesters have been arrested in demonstrations during US President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration in Washington. &#8220;We have arrested approximately 95 people,&#8221; said Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Lt. Sean Conboy on Friday. They were arrested for &#8220;vandalism and destruction of property.&#8221; Around 500 people, wearing masks, marched through the city\u2019s downtown with some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290993","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\/290993","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=290993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}