{"id":155086,"date":"2017-06-26T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T09:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/155086\/five-arrested-benoni-protests-rubber-bullets-fired\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T14:20:28","slug":"five-arrested-benoni-protests-rubber-bullets-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/06\/26\/five-arrested-benoni-protests-rubber-bullets-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Five arrested for Benoni protests, rubber bullets fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maj-Gen Poobalan Subbiah, the Ekurhuleni Central Cluster commander, said the approved march derailed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">READ:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benonicitytimes.co.za\/298507\/buildings-reportedly-damaged-benoni-protest\/\">Buildings reportedly damaged in Benoni protest<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cThere are splinter groups that\u00a0started chaos,\u201d said Subbiah.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He said public order policing fired rubber bullets and arrested five people for looting.<\/p>\n<p>Police are monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Subbiah said police reinforcements from the provincial SAPS will assist local police.<\/p>\n<p>This video of the\u00a0march was sent to the City Times:<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WbfsgxgXdy4' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='839255cef18d8172873080cda2be3bc9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people have been arrested and rubber bullets have been fired at some of this morning\u2019s protestors in Benoni, police say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":155087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Benoni City Times ","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1566,4240,14995,4074],"class_list":["post-155086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-benoni","tag-benoni-city-times","tag-benoni-protest","tag-protest"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["benoni","benoni city times","benoni protest","protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}