{"id":391740,"date":"2019-01-05T21:24:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-pro-brexit-yellow-vest-protest-turns-violent\/"},"modified":"2019-01-05T21:24:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:24:37","slug":"presstv-uk-pro-brexit-yellow-vest-protest-turns-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-pro-brexit-yellow-vest-protest-turns-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK pro-Brexit yellow-vest protest turns violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Four people, including a 13-year-old girl, have been arrested during a demonstration to support Britain\u2019s withdrawal from the European Union as protesters donned yellow vests to copy-cat a highly popular movement in France.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Evening Standard<\/em> newspaper said police had used force to contain more than 100 people who were trying to approach the British parliament compound in Westminster, near London\u2019s Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the demonstrators had caused disruption by setting off smoke bombs on the streets, saying those arrested would be charged with assaulting police and committing public order offences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour arrests have been made following protests on Westminster Bridge, SW1 at approximately 11am today,\u201d said the Metropolitan Police, adding that the 13-year-old girl had attempted to attack police officers at the scene of the protest.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures released online showed protesters wearing yellow vest outfits similar to those&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/05\/584942\/UK-protest-Brexit-yellow-vest-London\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people, including a 13-year-old girl, have been arrested during a demonstration to support Britain\u2019s withdrawal from the European Union as protesters donned yellow vests to copy-cat a highly popular movement in France. The Evening Standard newspaper said police had used force to contain more than 100 people who were trying to approach the British [&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-391740","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\/391740","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=391740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}