{"id":788065,"date":"2026-07-27T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788065\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:55:07","slug":"federal-probe-investigates-viral-video-showing-attack-on-sea-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788065\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal probe investigates viral video showing attack on sea lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YKU463DWHRAYNEUXY3WVFXFXVE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Federal officials say they are investigating after a video appeared to show a person striking a sea lion in San Diego, drawing outrage from local officials and the public.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4X73KNKBJZCJXM3UF4NUBYDXVI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DbKMi1ExqPp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DbKMi1ExqPp\/\">video<\/a> showed a man following and kicking at the sea lion while another person laughed. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ToddGloria\/status\/2081067735799504959\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ToddGloria\/status\/2081067735799504959\">said<\/a> over the weekend that the incident occurred at Point La Jolla, a popular coastal spot to watch the sea lions.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal officials say they are investigating after a video appeared to show a person striking a sea lion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-788065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}