{"id":5372,"date":"2025-10-17T06:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5372\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T06:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:51:08","slug":"protestors-disrupt-scranton-mayoral-debate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5372\/","title":{"rendered":"Protestors disrupt Scranton mayoral debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A group of protestors disrupted Thursday night&#8217;s Scranton mayoral debate.<\/p>\n<p> While incumbent Mayor Paige Cognetti answered a question regarding crime in the city, the group of three protestors stood up, sharing remarks in support of Palestine and questioning the mayor on funding sent to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Moderators asked the protestors to return order to the debate. <\/p>\n<p>Two exited without assistance, while a member of the University of Scranton police escorted out the third. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Cognetti did not answer questions from the protestors and returned to her answer to the original question from the moderators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A group of protestors disrupted Thursday night&#8217;s Scranton mayoral debate. While incumbent Mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[31,4866,4775,2497,3766,4865,178,180,179,4864],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime","tag-israel-funding","tag-mayoral-debate","tag-paige-cognetti","tag-palestine","tag-protestors","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-university-of-scranton-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","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=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}