{"id":711,"date":"2011-10-14T09:09:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=711"},"modified":"2011-10-14T09:09:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:09:47","slug":"fact-check-mayor-menino-falsely-claims-arrested-occupy-boston-members-are-outsiders-from-another-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/fact-check-mayor-menino-falsely-claims-arrested-occupy-boston-members-are-outsiders-from-another-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Mayor Menino Falsely Claims Arrested Occupy Boston Members Are &#8216;Outsiders&#8217; From &#8216;Another Country&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/special\/2011\/10\/14\/341868\/fact-check-mayor-menino-falsely-claims-arrested-occupy-boston-members-are-outsiders-from-another-country\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vets_for_peace_occupy_boston-300x199.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On early Tuesday morning, Boston police violently arrested 141 members of Occupy Boston for expanding their peaceable assembly to a new encampment without city authorization. The number of activists participating in the occupation of the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the heart of Boston\u2019s financial district has steadily grown since the beginning of October, leading to the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>After the arrests and the destruction of the expanded encampment, Mayor Thomas Menino and Police Commissioner Ed Davis have offered conflicting accounts of the reasons for the city\u2019s actions, from protecting grass to preventing outdoor sleeping. Davis called those arrested \u201canarchists,\u201d and Menino claimed \u201coutsiders\u201d who came \u201cfrom another country\u201d hijacked the Occupy Boston protest:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/special\/2011\/10\/14\/341868\/fact-check-mayor-menino-falsely-claims-arrested-occupy-boston-members-are-outsiders-from-another-country\/\">Fact Check: Mayor Menino Falsely Claims Arrested Occupy Boston Members Are &#8216;Outsiders&#8217; From &#8216;Another Country&#8217; | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qmKG9K_a5Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"380\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; On early Tuesday morning, Boston police violently arrested 141 members of Occupy Boston for expanding their peaceable assembly to a new encampment without city authorization. The number of activists participating in the occupation of the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the heart of Boston\u2019s financial district has steadily grown since the beginning of October,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,22,231],"tags":[350,393,425,256,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}