{"id":256751,"date":"2020-06-01T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=256751"},"modified":"2020-06-01T06:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T10:32:16","slug":"filipinos-in-us-told-to-avoid-protest-actions-areas-of-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/01\/filipinos-in-us-told-to-avoid-protest-actions-areas-of-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipinos in US told to avoid protest actions, areas of unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_256752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256752\" style=\"width: 3240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3240px-George_Floyd_Memorial_at_38th_and_Chicago_Avenue_South_Minneapolis_49942178738.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-256752\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3240px-George_Floyd_Memorial_at_38th_and_Chicago_Avenue_South_Minneapolis_49942178738.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3240\" height=\"2160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3240px-George_Floyd_Memorial_at_38th_and_Chicago_Avenue_South_Minneapolis_49942178738.jpg 3240w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3240px-George_Floyd_Memorial_at_38th_and_Chicago_Avenue_South_Minneapolis_49942178738-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3240px-George_Floyd_Memorial_at_38th_and_Chicago_Avenue_South_Minneapolis_49942178738-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3240px-George_Floyd_Memorial_at_38th_and_Chicago_Avenue_South_Minneapolis_49942178738-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3240px) 100vw, 3240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: A memorial has been placed outside Cup Foods near 38th and Chicago Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the site where a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into the neck of George Floyd\u2014an unarmed, handcuffed black man&#8217;s neck, killing him. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=90744104\">Photo By Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States &#8211; George Floyd Memorial at 38th and Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Embassy in the United States (US) has advised Filipinos to be cautious and vigilant in ensuring their safety and well-being amid the escalating protest actions and incidences of unrest in various cities across the US.<\/p>\n<p>In an advisory, the embassy urged Filipinos to adhere to security measures imposed by local authorities and avoid areas of unrest; and be aware of their surroundings and crowd buildups that may lead to disturbances like looting and destruction of properties.<\/p>\n<p>Protest actions, some leading to looting and vandalism of establishments, continued across the US over the weekend following the death of George Floyd, an African-American man, at the hands of police last week in Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Days following his death, tumultuous demonstrations swept beyond Minneapolis, from New York to Los Angeles and dozens of cities in between.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy advised Filipinos to monitor their respective local news for the latest information.<\/p>\n<p>No Filipino was reported hurt or injured due to the protests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Filipinos are strongly encouraged to abide by existing medical advisories on social distancing and the wearing of face masks in public areas on account of the current Covid-19 pandemic,&#8221; the embassy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Embassy in the United States (US) has advised Filipinos to be cautious and vigilant in ensuring their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":256752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-teresa-montemayor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256755,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256751\/revisions\/256755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}