{"id":15009,"date":"2020-06-07T12:37:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T07:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15009"},"modified":"2020-06-07T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T07:37:39","slug":"george-floyd-protests-continue-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15009","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd protests continue in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of demonstrators continued to protest Saturday the death of a black man in the US who was killed while in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators protested against racism and police brutality in the nation\u2019s capital of Washington D.C., as a second memorial ceremony for George Floyd was being held in the state of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial and conducted a die-in, remaining silent for eight minutes and 46 seconds the amount of time now former white police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd&#8217;s neck during his deadly arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators then marched to Lafayette Park across from the White House. Mayor Muriel Bowser and health care workers marched in support of demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should all be watching what&#8217;s happening in Washington D.C. because we do not want the federal government to do this to any other Americans,&#8221; Bowser said while walking with protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide demonstrations against police brutality have continued for nearly two weeks following Floyd\u2019s death in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Four officers have been fired who were involved in the arrest. Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder. The other officers were charged with aiding and abetting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 Thousands of demonstrators continued to protest Saturday the death of a black man in the US who was killed while in police custody. Demonstrators protested against racism and police brutality in the nation\u2019s capital of Washington D.C., as a second memorial ceremony for George Floyd was being held in the state of North Carolina. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15011,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions\/15011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}