{"id":963829,"date":"2026-05-16T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/963829\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:42:11","slug":"two-arrests-at-london-protest-after-stirchley-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/963829\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrests at London protest after Stirchley hit and run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hit and run followed angry scenes on adjoining Pershore Road after men from the Raise the Colours group arrived to put up flags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Videos shared on social media show arguments between the group members and local residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Police recovered the vehicle and said it had been reviewing CCTV footage and videos on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham Selly Oak MP Al Carns wrote to the acting chief constable, saying he was &#8220;seriously concerned&#8221; by events in Stirchley and that residents &#8220;deserve to feel safe in their own neighbourhood&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The city council previously said it was aware of the incident, and &#8220;increased tensions in some areas&#8221;, and encouraged calm and &#8220;community cohesion&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hit and run followed angry scenes on adjoining Pershore Road after men from the Raise the Colours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-963829","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-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963829","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=963829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}