{"id":30940,"date":"2020-10-09T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30940"},"modified":"2020-10-09T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:00:42","slug":"protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest","title":{"rendered":"Protest turns violent as police arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The mobile police officers in Osogbo have dispersed some youths protesting against brutality and extortion by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Response Squad (SARS).<\/p>\n<p>The police officers stationed at Olaiya Junction allegedly shoot sporadically in the air to disperse the protesting youths.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of the two protesters almost led to violence as other protesters stormed the base of the police where their APC vehicle was packed demanding for the release of their colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The policemen also seized placards and allegedly arrested two of the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered the same protest were also staged at Ilesa, Ile-Ife and Osogbo, the state capital of Osun.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the inscriptions on the placards read, #Endsars, \u2018Nigeria police stop killing us\u2019, and \u2018say no to brutal injustice\u2019, \u2018stop killing Nigerian Youths\u2019, We are not animal, stop killing us\u2019, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were seeking the dissolution of the SARS unit of Nigeria Police Force over cases of killings, harassment and extortion by its personnel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-16\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The mobile police officers in Osogbo have dispersed some youths protesting against brutality and extortion by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Response Squad (SARS). The police officers stationed at Olaiya Junction allegedly shoot sporadically in the air to disperse the protesting youths. The arrest of the two protesters almost led to violence as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":30941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[1404,260],"class_list":["post-30940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-osun-state","tag-protest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Protest turns violent as police arrest - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The mobile police officers in Osogbo have dispersed some youths protesting against brutality and extortion\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protest turns violent as police arrest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The mobile police officers in Osogbo have dispersed some youths protesting against brutality and extortion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-09T15:00:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-police.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Protest turns violent as police arrest\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-09T15:00:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest\"},\"wordCount\":170,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Nigeria-police.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Osun State\",\"Protest\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/protest-turns-violent-as-police-arrest\",\"name\":\"Protest turns violent as police arrest - 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