{"id":44597,"date":"2022-05-18T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T22:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/18\/fiji-officers-bus-driver-arrest-video-reignites-debate-about-excessive-police-force"},"modified":"2022-05-18T07:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T22:32:27","slug":"video-showing-arrest-of-fiji-bus-driver-reignites-debate-about-police-use-of-excessive-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44597","title":{"rendered":"Video showing arrest of Fiji bus driver reignites debate about police use of excessive force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident was witnessed by a Fijian MP who said she intervened telling the police officer \u2018You can deal with this without violence\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Fiji police have suspended an officer pending an investigation after a video showing what appeared to be the use of excessive force against a bus driver during an arrest was shared widely in the Pacific country.<\/p>\n<p>The video appears to show a police officer attempting to remove a handcuffed bus driver from his bus in Labasa on Vanua Levu, Fiji\u2019s second largest island on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/18\/fiji-officers-bus-driver-arrest-video-reignites-debate-about-excessive-police-force\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident was witnessed by a Fijian MP who said she intervened telling the police officer \u2018You can deal with this without violence\u2019Fiji police have suspended an officer pending an investigation after a video showing what appeared to be the use of ex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44598,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44597\/revisions\/44598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}