{"id":38307,"date":"2015-01-13T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38307"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:14:31","slug":"rb-artist-the-weeknd-accused-of-hitting-officer-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/13\/rb-artist-the-weeknd-accused-of-hitting-officer-in-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"R&#038;B artist The Weeknd accused of hitting officer in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38320\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38320\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian R&amp;B artist The Weeknd\" width=\"610\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image.jpg 610w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image-600x354.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian R&amp;B artist The Weeknd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LAS VEGAS &#8212; The Canadian R&amp;B artist known as The Weeknd was arrested in Las Vegas after police say he hit an officer in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas Police Officer Laura Meltzer says 24-year-old Abel Tesfaye was arrested early Saturday in a Las Vegas Strip hotel on suspicion of misdemeanor battery of a protected person. He was taken to the Clark County Detention Center, but wasn&#8217;t listed on the jail roster on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Meltzer says police were trying to break up a fight on one of the floors when Tesfaye hit an officer on the side of the head with a closed fist.<\/p>\n<p>She says it doesn&#8217;t appear that the officer was seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd was scheduled for a concert Friday at Drai&#8217;s Nightclub. He is featured on Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Love Me Harder.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS &#8212; The Canadian R&amp;B artist known as The Weeknd was arrested in Las Vegas after police say he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":38320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38307","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}