{"id":301245,"date":"2017-03-29T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/police-driver-attempted-to-run-over-capitol-officers\/"},"modified":"2017-03-29T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:16:07","slug":"police-driver-attempted-to-run-over-capitol-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/police-driver-attempted-to-run-over-capitol-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Driver attempted to run over Capitol officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(75, 79, 86)\">A driver has attempted to run into a police cruiser near the US Congress in Washington DC, authorities said. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(75, 79, 86)\">Early on Wednesday, a driver was taken into custody after he hit the vehicle of Capitol Police officers, attempting to run them down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(75, 79, 86)\">According to a Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson, no one was injured in the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(75, 79, 86)\">Some sources said that shots were also heard near the Capitol building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(75, 79, 86)\">The incident happened on Independence Avenue around 9:30 a.m. ET, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(75, 79, 86)\">Police have also said that the incident appeared unrelated to terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(This item is to be updated)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/03\/29\/516037\/police-driver-run-over-police-officers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver has attempted to run into a police cruiser near the US Congress in Washington DC, authorities said. Early on Wednesday, a driver was taken into custody after he hit the vehicle of Capitol Police officers, attempting to run them down. According to a Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson, no one was injured in the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301245","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=301245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}