{"id":41907,"date":"2017-08-25T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41907"},"modified":"2017-08-24T19:48:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T23:48:49","slug":"motorist-mows-down-marchers-attending-vigil-for-killed-trans-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41907","title":{"rendered":"Motorist Mows Down Marchers Attending Vigil for Killed Trans Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=41908\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41908\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kiwi-herring-x750-560x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kiwi-herring-x750-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kiwi-herring-x750.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis police arrested the driver of a vehicle who hit a group of protesters on Wednesday evening. Three people suffered minor injuries in the incident, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a group of protesters were marching from the city&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Transgender\u00a0Memorial Garden<\/em> when they blocked traffic at an intersection in all directions. A car approached, honking its horn, and tried to drive around the protesters, when police say the driver was surrounded and the marchers began banging on the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Police say as the suspect drove away two women and a man who had climbed on the car were tossed from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The three people who suffered minor injuries refused medical attention, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police followed the driver and pulled him over a block away from the scene. He was arrested and charged with felony fleeing, police said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the protesters shared a video of the rally from Periscope with the incident occurring at about 29:30 into the video. There is no sound in the video, but you can see the vehicle pull around the protesters and a police car follow closely behind.<\/p>\n<p>The march was organized by the Metro Trans Umbrella Group in the wake of the death of 30-year-old trans woman,\u00a0<strong>Kiwi Herring<\/strong>, who was shot and killed by St. Louis police on Tuesday. According to police, the woman was shot after attempting to stab an officer. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/driver-arrested-hitting-group-protesting-death-trans-woman\/story?id=49391563\">ABC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MissJupiter1957\/status\/900524351300132864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FUS%2Fdriver-arrested-hitting-group-protesting-death-trans-woman%2Fstory%3Fid%3D49391563<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis police arrested the driver of a vehicle who hit a group of protesters on Wednesday evening. Three people suffered minor injuries in the incident, police said.<br \/>\nAccording to police, a group of protesters were marching from the city&#8217;s\u00a0Transgender\u00a0Memorial Garden when they blocked traffic at an intersection in all directions. A car approached, honking its [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[6029,7589,7590,7587,5528,7588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41909,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907\/revisions\/41909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}