{"id":340913,"date":"2025-12-29T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340913\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:09:07","slug":"police-officer-punched-during-rotherham-drink-drive-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340913\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer punched during Rotherham drink-drive arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A police officer was punched in the face during a drink-drive arrest in the early hours of Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man, in his 30s, crashed his car into a telegraph pole on Brooke Road in Rotherham at about 04:30 GMT, South Yorkshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While being taken to a police car by an officer, he became &#8220;increasingly uncooperative and violent&#8221;, the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was arrested on suspicion of driving over the alcohol limit and assaulting an emergency worker, and has since been bailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer was punched in the face during a drink-drive arrest in the early hours of Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-340913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}