{"id":68471,"date":"2016-01-09T07:35:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T12:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=68471"},"modified":"2016-01-09T07:35:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T12:35:55","slug":"syrian-refugees-pepper-sprayed-welcome-night-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/09\/syrian-refugees-pepper-sprayed-welcome-night-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian refugees pepper sprayed at &#8220;welcome Night&#8221; in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">VANCOUVER\u2014Police said they were looking for a suspect after more than a dozen Syrian refugees were pepper sprayed late Friday night in Vancouver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">The attack happened outside the Muslim Association of Canada Centre during a \u201cwelcome night\u201d event for newly-arrived Syrian refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">City police said a crowd of men, women and children had gathered outside the MAC centre when a man wearing a white-hoodie apparently rode by on a bicycle and sprayed 15 to 30 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">Witnesses said several of those who were hit started coughing and complaining of burning eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">Police said that a number of people were treated on scene, but there was no word of any serious injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">Investigators said it was too early to comment on a possible motive for the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER\u2014Police said they were looking for a suspect after more than a dozen Syrian refugees were pepper sprayed late Friday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-68471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ca","category-immigration","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471","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=68471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}