{"id":96914,"date":"2025-08-25T22:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96914\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:41:06","slug":"bylaw-officer-attacked-outside-city-hall-after-issuing-parking-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96914\/","title":{"rendered":"Bylaw officer attacked outside city hall after issuing parking ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ottawa bylaw officer was attacked outside city hall Saturday morning after issuing a parking ticket in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attack came to an end after another city employee stepped in, according to an emailed statement from the City of Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they arrived at the scene around 10:40 a.m. and made an arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear how badly hurt the parking control officer was, but the city said it&#8217;s thankful the injuries &#8220;are not more severe.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incident was an unacceptable, cowardly act of violence and will not be tolerated. Our officers play an important role in upholding municipal regulations and community safety,&#8221; the city stated, adding that it will conduct a full review into what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Police Service has charged the suspect with\u00a0assaulting a peace officer and uttering threats.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said Monday he was very sad and upset to learn about the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our city employees &#8230; work hard every day on behalf of the community and they deserve\u00a0to be respected in the workplace,&#8221; he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ottawa bylaw officer was attacked outside city hall Saturday morning after issuing a parking ticket in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-96914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96914","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=96914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}