{"id":296014,"date":"2017-02-22T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T10:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-than-200-inauguration-day-protesters-indicted-for-rioting\/"},"modified":"2017-02-22T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T10:40:03","slug":"more-than-200-inauguration-day-protesters-indicted-for-rioting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-than-200-inauguration-day-protesters-indicted-for-rioting\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 Inauguration Day protesters indicted for rioting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>More than 200 protesters arrested during the inauguration of US President Donald Trump have been indicted on felony rioting charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, indicted a total of 214 people Tuesday in connection with the January 20 demonstration which drew thousands of protesters to downtown Washington as Trump was being sworn in. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors alleged that those indicted used &#8220;black bloc&#8221; tactics, causing violence and attempting to disguise their identities by covering their faces.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, some protesters were armed with hammers, crowbars, bricks, rocks, flares, firecrackers and other explosive devices.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170222\/705ad02e-d2d1-4c45-96e4-5d2ab39e5177.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Protesters clash with police while demonstrating against US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the inauguration in Washington, DC, January 20, 2017. (Photo by Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They have been accused of attacking a limousine driver, smashing windows of local businesses, damaging a government vehicle and committing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/22\/511627\/Over-200-Trump-protesters-indicted-for-rioting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 protesters arrested during the inauguration of US President Donald Trump have been indicted on felony rioting charges. A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, indicted a total of 214 people Tuesday in connection with the January 20 demonstration which drew thousands of protesters to downtown Washington as Trump was being sworn in. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296014","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\/296014","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=296014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}