{"id":376001,"date":"2018-09-04T03:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T02:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-12-arrested-in-chicago-labor-day-protest\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T03:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T02:58:47","slug":"presstv-12-arrested-in-chicago-labor-day-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-12-arrested-in-chicago-labor-day-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-12 arrested in Chicago Labor Day protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Police arrested 12 activists purportedly\u00a0attempting to block Chicago&#8217;s Kennedy expressway near O&#8217;Hare International Airport on Monday, as part of an anti-violence protest held on Labor Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protesters sought to draw attention to the city&#8217;s gang violence epidemic. They called on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s to step down, and demanded more investment be funnelled into neighbourhoods where shooting occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Police proceeded to arrest 12 people and demanded that the protesters clear from the expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were planning to march down the Kennedy expressway and to reach the O&#8217;Hare International Airport.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/04\/573120\/US-12-arrested-in-Chicago-Labour-Day-antiviolence-protest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Police arrested 12 activists purportedly\u00a0attempting to block Chicago&#8217;s Kennedy expressway near O&#8217;Hare International Airport on Monday, as part of an anti-violence protest held on Labor Day. Protesters sought to draw attention to the city&#8217;s gang violence epidemic. They called on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s to step down, and demanded more investment be funnelled into [&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-376001","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\/376001","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=376001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}