{"id":268539,"date":"2019-03-09T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=268539"},"modified":"2019-03-09T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T19:42:08","slug":"philadelphia-police-shoot-ethiopian-man-holding-knife-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/268539","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police shoot Ethiopian man holding knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia police shot an Ethiopian man on Wednesday near the corner of 49th Street and Hazel Avenue. The shooting of the man, who was allegedly involved in a stabbing incident, has sparked an uproar from the Ethiopian and Eritrean community in the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to Capt. Sekou Kinebrew, the Ethiopian man was carrying a knife and refused to drop it although officers urged him to do so repeatedly. The victim was shot multiple times after he refused to heed the warning.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say although they received a report that the victim stabbed another person, they are yet to find the stabbing victim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We searched the scene and the home in search of stabbing victim. At this point, we have not found anyone that was stabbed,&#8221; Kinebrew said. [&#8230;.] <a href=\"https:\/\/kywnewsradio.radio.com\/articles\/news\/philadelphias-ethiopian-community-asking-questions-after-they-say-one-their-own\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia police shot an Ethiopian man on Wednesday near the corner of 49th Street and Hazel Avenue. The shooting of the man, who was allegedly involved in a stabbing incident, has sparked an uproar from the Ethiopian and Eritrean community in the state. According to Capt. Sekou Kinebrew, the Ethiopian man was carrying a knife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":268537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1857-e1519673533661.jpg?fit=4000%2C3000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-17Rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268541,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268539\/revisions\/268541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}