{"id":273349,"date":"2026-08-27T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273349\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:36:09","slug":"rome-police-investigate-assault-near-erie-canal-caught-on-video-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273349\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome Police Investigate Assault Near Erie Canal Caught on Video | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Police Lights\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/68cb429673e59.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ROME, N.Y. &#8212; The Rome Police Department is investigating an assault involving a male victim that was reportedly recorded and posted to social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RPD said it was alerted to the video on Aug. 26 &#8220;that appears to show a group of individuals assaulting a male victim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the incident to have happened in the area of the Erie Canal in the City of Rome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RPD is investigating and is asking anyone who saw the assault, knows those involved, or has more video or information to contact the Rome Police Department TIP Line at 315-339-7744.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME, N.Y. &#8212; The Rome Police Department is investigating an assault involving a male victim that was reportedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[105031,136,919,138,137,9111,73367,9112,3652],"class_list":["post-273349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-city-of-rome","tag-erie","tag-erie-canal","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-rome","tag-rome-police","tag-rome-police-department","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}