{"id":11539,"date":"2013-11-05T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2013-11-05T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T14:07:00","slug":"police-shoots-boy-12-during-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11539","title":{"rendered":"Police shoots boy, 12, during protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11541\" alt=\"stones\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stones.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>A 12-year-old boy was shot and wounded during a protest in Jabulani, Soweto, Gauteng police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said the boy was shot on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is alleged the boy was shot in the head. By yesterday [Monday] he was still in hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We do not know who shot him, [it is] between the Johannesburg metro police and the SA Police Service [SAPS]. We are investigating&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said residents protested on Friday, demanding that speed bumps be erected on roads, as cars were driving at high speed in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Makhubela said a case of attempted murder was opened on Monday after the police traced the boy&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there was a public disturbance during the protest and three people were arrested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The three were arrested for malicious damage and public violence. They appeared in the Protea Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the case was postponed to Monday, when they were expected to bring a formal bail application. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy was shot and wounded during a protest in Jabulani, Soweto, Gauteng police said on Tuesday. Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said the boy was shot on Friday. &#8220;It is alleged the boy was shot in the head. By yesterday [Monday] he was still in hospital. &#8220;We do not know who shot him, [it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police shoots boy, 12, during protest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7302,7301,7303,757],"class_list":["post-11539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-boy-shot-by-police","tag-jabulani","tag-sa-police-service-saps","tag-soweto"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stones.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11543,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions\/11543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}