{"id":18060,"date":"2015-03-17T10:31:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T08:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=18060"},"modified":"2015-03-17T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T08:32:31","slug":"uk-teenager-arrested-after-racist-soccer-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=18060","title":{"rendered":"UK teenager arrested after racist soccer tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of sending a racist tweet aimed at black Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck.<a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/coon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/coon.jpg\" alt=\"coon\" width=\"690\" height=\"440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/coon.jpg 690w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/coon-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/coon-148x94.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/coon-31x20.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/coon-38x24.jpg 38w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/coon-337x215.jpg 337w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/coon-535x341.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post was made after Welbeck netted the winning goal during an FA Cup quarter-final clash against his former club Manchester United on 9 March.<\/p>\n<p>The slur was one of a number of messages posted in the aftermath of Welbeck&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p>Tweeted by user @angeIsleftfoot, the offending message was posted after Welbeck&#8217;s decisive role in Arsenal&#8217;s 2-1 Quarter Final victory at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Officers in Manchester with specialist training in social media identified the user and passed on the information to Wiltshire Police, who confirmed they have now made an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Welbeck was shown the door by United boss Louis van Gaal last year, who claimed he was not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old boy, from the Salisbury area, was arrested on suspicion of racial abuse and released on bail until 13 April, Wiltshire Police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of sending a racist tweet aimed at black Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck. The post was made after Welbeck netted the winning goal during an FA Cup quarter-final clash against his former club Manchester United on 9 March. The slur was one of a number of messages posted in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=18060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UK teenager arrested after racist soccer tweet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[11220,654,157,476,1946],"class_list":["post-18060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-black-player","tag-football","tag-racism","tag-soccer","tag-uk"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060","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\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18063,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060\/revisions\/18063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}