{"id":245917,"date":"2025-07-07T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245917\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:24:10","slug":"man-charged-with-seriously-injuring-police-officer-in-birmingham-during-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245917\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with seriously injuring police officer in Birmingham during arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">West Midlands Police<\/a> were called to reports of a disturbance at a house on Talbot Street in Hockley, Birmingham, on Saturday morning (July 5) and an officer was seriously injured after trying to arrest John Davies.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old was subsequently arrested and charged with grievous bodily harm, as well as being charged with wounding with intent of a member of the public during the same incident and of assaulting another officer, who was punched during the disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Davies was scheduled to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court on Monday (July 7).<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police also confirmed that all those injured in the incident are now recovering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers from West Midlands Police were called to reports of a disturbance at a house on Talbot Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-245917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114813354909329677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}