{"id":319856,"date":"2017-08-02T02:01:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T01:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/labour-mp-hit-in-the-face-with-a-brick-by-attacker-on-motorcycle\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T02:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T01:01:34","slug":"labour-mp-hit-in-the-face-with-a-brick-by-attacker-on-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/labour-mp-hit-in-the-face-with-a-brick-by-attacker-on-motorcycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour MP hit in the face with a brick by attacker on motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.08\/thumbnail\/59803d97fc7e933d6d8b4567.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 1 Aug, 2017 09:30 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Labour MP Steve McCabe has been left with facial injuries after being hit with brick by a \u201cthug\u201d on a motorcycle in his constituency. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>The MP for Birmingham, Selly Oak, said he was suffering from a <em>\u201cvery sore &amp; swollen face\u201d<\/em> after being attacked on Greenford Road in Kings Heath on Monday night. He says he has reported the incident to police.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight nursing a very sore&amp;swollen face. I was struck with a brick by a motorbike thug in Greenford Rd. Have given full statement to police <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lHXGsA7xhP\">pic.twitter.com\/lHXGsA7xhP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve McCabe (@steve_mccabe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steve_mccabe\/status\/892112456625127424\">July 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>McCabe, 61, posted a picture of his injured face on Twitter and the people he believes are responsible.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTonight nursing a very sore &amp; swollen face,\u201d<\/em> he tweeted. <em>\u201cI was struck with a brick by a motorbike thug in Greenford Road. Have given a full statement to police.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alongside two pictures of men on bikes dresses in grey and wearing helmets that obscured their faces, he wrote:<em> \u201cSure somebody recognizes these two. All I need are names &amp; addresses. Send them to me anonymously &amp; I\u2019ll do the rest with police.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sure somebody recognises these two. All I need are names &amp; addresses. Send them to me anonymously &amp; I&#8217;ll do the rest with the police <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NIborj7Uj8\">pic.twitter.com\/NIborj7Uj8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve McCabe (@steve_mccabe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steve_mccabe\/status\/892113290515685376\">July 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is not clear whether McCabe was targeted because of his job. However, politicians have reported in recent months that they increasingly have to contend with abuse, including death threats.<\/p>\n<p>McCabe was flooded with messages of support from politicians across the political spectrum. Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith wrote: <em>\u201cYou poor thing. Hope they catch him. Take it easy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jo Swinson, deputy Liberal Democrat leader, tweeted:<em> \u201cHorrific! Hope they catch them asap. TLC, hope you feel better soon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fellow Labour MP Angela Rayner described the incident as \u201cshocking,\u201d adding: \u201cThat really could have been a lot worse! I really hope the police find the culprit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Labour MP Mary Creagh said she was sending <em>\u201cevery good wish to my friend and colleague Steve McCabe after this horrible news.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesperson said the incident is being investigated.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAlthough the injuries sustained are minor, this kind of behavior is not acceptable and the matter is being dealt with seriously,\u201d<\/em> the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/398175-labour-mp-brick-attack\/?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: 1 Aug, 2017 09:30 Labour MP Steve McCabe has been left with facial injuries after being hit with brick by a \u201cthug\u201d on a motorcycle in his constituency. The MP for Birmingham, Selly Oak, said he was suffering from a \u201cvery sore &amp; swollen face\u201d after being attacked on Greenford Road in Kings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319856","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\/319856","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=319856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}