{"id":62901,"date":"2024-06-10T10:25:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T00:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=62901"},"modified":"2024-06-10T10:26:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T00:26:36","slug":"pro-palestine-protests-in-melbourne-turn-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=62901","title":{"rendered":"Pro Palestine protests in Melbourne turn violent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pro Palestine protests in Melbourne&#8217;s CBD yesterday turned ugly with violent confrontations taking place between protestors and the police.  Police state they were the target of bottles and signs being thrown and responded with pepper spray when cornered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protests dispute this statement and say the Police were the first to act with pepper spray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video of police pepper spraying peaceful pro-Palestine protesters and media today in Melbourne. Video courtesy of Ummah_forpalestine on instagram<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Video of police pepper spraying peaceful pro-Palestine protesters and media today in Melbourne.<br><br>Video courtesy of Ummah_forpalestine on instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cH3C2HOnZh\">pic.twitter.com\/cH3C2HOnZh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kenji the Orthodox Heretic (@kwardenclyffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwardenclyffe\/status\/1799702854661489060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro Palestine protests in Melbourne&#8217;s CBD yesterday turned ugly with violent confrontations taking place between protestors and the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":62902,"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":[273,6822,9213],"tags":[993,10191,8],"class_list":["post-62901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-melbourne-events","category-palestine","tag-melbourne","tag-protests","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62901","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62905,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62901\/revisions\/62905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}