{"id":23374,"date":"2024-03-29T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T08:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=23374"},"modified":"2024-03-29T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T08:43:17","slug":"afl-legend-eddie-betts-shares-video-of-racial-abuse-hurled-at-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=23374","title":{"rendered":"AFL legend Eddie Betts shares video of racial abuse hurled at children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Victoria have launched an investigation following the confronting video shared by AFL legend Eddie Betts which shows a person driving past his home and yelling racial abuse at his children and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The security footage<strong>,<\/strong> shared on Instagram by Betts last night, shows a white car slowly driving down the road before someone in the car yells out the same racial slur four times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Aboriginal kids deserve to be able to play safely, free from racism and abuse over the fence,&#8221; Betts said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are not even safe in our own homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you know who this is please let me them know that I&#8217;m open to having a chat about how much this hurts our kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria Police this afternoon confirmed it is investigating the incident after receiving a report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s alleged a vehicle drove past the property just after 8.30pm and yelled from the windows before driving away,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The matter is currently being investigated.\ufeff&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Victoria have launched an investigation following the confronting video shared by AFL legend Eddie Betts which shows a person driving past his home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23375,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions\/23375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}