{"id":116686,"date":"2020-05-22T11:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=116686"},"modified":"2020-05-22T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:58:01","slug":"police-officer-attacked-by-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/police-officer-attacked-by-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer Attacked By Youths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A police officer who was investigating a report of social distancing violations was attacked in a park &#8211; by the very people he was investigating.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116714\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116714\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/153B3515-0615-44B9-9542-0AB093E1F453-300x192.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/153B3515-0615-44B9-9542-0AB093E1F453-300x192.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/153B3515-0615-44B9-9542-0AB093E1F453-768x492.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/153B3515-0615-44B9-9542-0AB093E1F453-600x384.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/153B3515-0615-44B9-9542-0AB093E1F453.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-116714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The park where the incident took place.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The attack happened In West Byfleet Park outside south-west London at 7.40pm, Surrey police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was later taken to hospital with minor injuries to his wrist and hear, after he was attacked by multiple young men whilst engaging with them.<\/p>\n<p>He was only there to follow up on a social distancing violation.<\/p>\n<p>Three people have since been taken into custody, one adult, and two younger men.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase in social distancing breaches recently, but it was bound to happen as lockdown measures got less strict. People are now allowed to meet with a single person outside of their immediate household to chat outdoors or exercise, but they must stay at least 2m away.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports show that people are meeting up, in larger groups than allowed, and not social distancing &#8211; something that could cause restrictions to tighten again.<\/p>\n<p>But, in regards to the police incident, any witnesses were asked to call police on 101, quoting PR\/ 45200052505.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer who was investigating a report of social distancing violations was attacked in a park &#8211; by the very people he was investigating. The attack happened In West Byfleet Park outside south-west London at 7.40pm, Surrey police have said. The officer was later taken to hospital with minor injuries to his wrist and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":116714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[556,1727,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-116686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-crime","tag-crime-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116715,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116686\/revisions\/116715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}