{"id":287386,"date":"2026-02-16T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287386\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:24:07","slug":"bop-youth-assault-over-red-hat-police-seek-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287386\/","title":{"rendered":"BoP youth assault over red hat: Police seek witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">Members of the public who witnessed the attack or who have information that may assist police are asked to visit the Whakat\u0101ne Police Station and speak with an officer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">Police are also reminding the public to report disorder when it happens, but Mackinnon advises caution before bystanders  intervene.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSome of these individuals may be carrying weapons, so I urge the public to be careful before they intervene,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEven filming  from a safe distance can be helpful to police during the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the public who witnessed the attack or who have information that may assist police are asked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17704,49212,101896,29712,111,43,139,69,1523,675,15406,11925,2240,28251,1079],"class_list":["post-287386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-assault","tag-beacon","tag-bop","tag-hat","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-police","tag-red","tag-seek","tag-whakatne","tag-witnesses","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}