{"id":15214,"date":"2012-12-31T09:42:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15214"},"modified":"2012-12-31T09:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:42:57","slug":"bahrain-detains-slapping-policeman-as-video-goes-viral-daily-beatings-and-birdshot-attacks-by-police-go-unabated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15214","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain detains &#8220;Slapping Policeman&#8221; as video goes viral &#8211; daily beatings and birdshot attacks by police go unabated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/birdshotbahrain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/birdshotbahrain-e1356972078555.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"569\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahrain Detains Officer for Slapping Man<\/strong><br \/>\nBy ROBERT MACKEY &#8211; 28 Decemebr, 2012 &#8211; NYT<\/p>\n<p>Although Bahrain has previously failed to prosecute members of its security forces caught on video shooting unarmed protesters, this week an officer who slapped a man with a baby in his arms was detained after video of the incident attracted wide attention.<\/p>\n<p>The activist Ala\u2019a Shehabi drew attention to the video, which was recorded on Sunday in the village of A\u2019ali.  <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/28\/officer-detained-for-slapping-bahraini-man\/?smid=tw-thelede&#038;seid=auto\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t-UuDXOT-cA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D15214&amp;text=Bahrain+detains+%22Slapping+Policeman%22+as+video+goes+viral+-+daily+beatings+and+birdshot+attacks+by+police+go+unabated&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain Detains Officer for Slapping Man By ROBERT MACKEY &#8211; 28 Decemebr, 2012 &#8211; NYT Although Bahrain has previously failed to prosecute members of its security forces caught on video shooting unarmed protesters, this week an officer who slapped a man with a baby in his arms was detained after video of the incident attracted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15214#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2432],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15218,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions\/15218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}