{"id":957046,"date":"2026-11-03T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/957046\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:16:12","slug":"rnc-investigating-another-random-assault-in-citys-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/957046\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Investigating another Random Assault in City\u2019s Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/downtown-kick.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"RNC Investigating another Random Assault in City's Downtown\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo via Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>RNC is investigating a shocking incident in downtown St. John\u2019s captured on video and shared to social media.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which has been making the rounds online over the last few days, shows a man doing pushups on the sidewalk when another enters the frame, kicking him in the face.<\/p>\n<p>Cst. Steph Myers says she cannot comment on that incident in particular, but says RNC is aware of the video.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/10\/30\/315072\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a number recently<\/a> that has prompted concerns about safety in the downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Cst. Myers says the RNC puts extra emphasis on that area \u2013 24\/7, 365 days a year.<\/p>\n<p>She also reminds people to make sure they\u2019re reporting incidents to police, rather than just posting online.<\/p>\n<p>Myers says just because something is online, doesn\u2019t mean the police are aware of it. She encourages anyone who witnesses anything of criminal nature to call 911 or the non-emergency line at 709-729-8000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Photo via Facebook) RNC is investigating a shocking incident in downtown St. John\u2019s captured on video and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-957046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}