{"id":580300,"date":"2026-05-12T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580300\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:58:10","slug":"moss-side-incident-live-as-officer-attacked-after-police-called-to-man-brandishing-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580300\/","title":{"rendered":"Moss Side incident LIVE as officer attacked after police called to &#8216;man brandishing knife&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Eyewitness Simon Bailey told the M.E.N he got to the scene &#8216;about 30 seconds&#8217; after it happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;I was walking home from work and I heard sirens and police cars going around the corner,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When I got there behind them, I saw loads of officers on top of a young guy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;One of the officers was led away by colleagues and he had a large cut to his left cheek and was bleeding. It looked like he had been slashed with a knife.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eyewitness Simon Bailey told the M.E.N he got to the scene &#8216;about 30 seconds&#8217; after it happened. &#8220;I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,59224,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-580300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-moss-side","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580300","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=580300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}