{"id":53005,"date":"2016-07-20T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=53005"},"modified":"2016-07-21T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:56:38","slug":"video-tears-flow-after-traffic-arrests-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/20\/video-tears-flow-after-traffic-arrests-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Tears flow after traffic arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses say that the traffic officers, stomped on the head of on of the men that were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 16:20 in Meyer Street in front of the <i>Middelburg Observer<\/i> offices.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists and bystanders were threatened with arrest for taking photos and video footage of the commotion.<\/p>\n<p>One of the traffic officers affecting the arrests accused <i>www.mobserver.co.za<\/i> of taking pictures \u201cbecause we\u2019re black\u201d.<\/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\/QQ5mtyVXjDk' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>A man, sitting handcuffed in front of a traffic vehicle cried throughout the commotion, and pleaded for assistance from the public.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what led to the arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were arrested and a cell phone confiscated by a gang of traffic officials who used excessive force to subdue the offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":53008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[2958,5321,1447,1049,2112,4291,5322,2023,5320,919,1088],"class_list":["post-53005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrest","tag-baklei","tag-cars","tag-danger","tag-fight","tag-journalist","tag-tears","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-brutality","tag-traffic-officer","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrest","baklei","cars","danger","fight","journalist","Tears","traffic","Traffic Brutality","traffic officer","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}