{"id":5809,"date":"2020-06-06T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2020-06-06T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:49:17","slug":"george-floyd-protests-166-mps-from-all-parties-call-for-uk-to-stop-teargas-and-rubber-bullet-exports-to-us-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/06\/george-floyd-protests-166-mps-from-all-parties-call-for-uk-to-stop-teargas-and-rubber-bullet-exports-to-us-the-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd protests: 166 MPs from all parties call for UK to stop teargas and rubber bullet exports to US | The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pressure is growing on ministers to suspend the export of British riot gear, teargas, and rubber bullets to the US in light of a violent police crackdown against peaceful civil rights protesters in the country.\u00a0More than 160 MPs from every major party in the Commons, including <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"http:\/\/independent.co.uk\/topic\/borisjohnson\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-9551006-http:\/\/independent.co.uk\/topic\/borisjohnson\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">Boris Johnson<\/a>\u2019s own, have written to Liz Truss, the international trade secretary, calling for an immediate end to exports while an investigation takes place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/george-floyd-protests-uk-export-tear-gas-rubber-bullet-us-a9551006.html\">George Floyd protests: 166 MPs from all parties call for UK to stop teargas and rubber bullet exports to US | The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure is growing on ministers to suspend the export of British riot gear, teargas, and rubber bullets to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,443,432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-fascism","category-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5810,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}