{"id":782618,"date":"2026-09-25T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782618\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:38:11","slug":"drama-as-police-pin-man-to-ground-in-norwich-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782618\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama as police pin man to ground in Norwich city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The incident unfolded in Red Lion Street, near the bus stop opposite the former Debenhams building, at about 3pm on Friday (September 25).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The man, who was wearing a fedora and had several chains around his neck, was put into cuffs before falling to his knees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>It is not yet clear what the man was arrested on suspicion of. (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He was then pinned to the pavement by officers and began screaming and shouting as concerned shoppers and people waiting for the bus looked on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At least two police cars and a van attended the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is not yet clear what he was arrested on suspicion of, but Norfolk Constabulary has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident unfolded in Red Lion Street, near the bus stop opposite the former Debenhams building, at about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782618","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=782618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}