{"id":56554,"date":"2016-09-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/56554\/police-negotiate-hours-with-suspect\/"},"modified":"2016-09-16T09:32:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T07:32:01","slug":"police-negotiate-hours-with-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/15\/police-negotiate-hours-with-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Police negotiate hours with suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the public, including the pastor who saved the day, are of the view that CPF members blew the incident out of proportion, showed no respect for passers-by, and blatantly lied to police claiming that the man stored ammunition and weapons in his home &#8211; prompting a heavy-handed response by police.<\/p>\n<p>The incident unfolded late on Wednesday afternoon at the corner of Oos- and Koets Street.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Police negotiate hours with suspect, Middelburg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p-UPOhqgdRc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A five hour ordeal, during which dozens of police and CPF members surrounded a house in Middelburg Central ended when a suspect surrendered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":56567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar, Annie van Zyl, Zsaraeva Nel","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}