{"id":30065,"date":"2025-05-31T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/police-probe-hate-crime-over-removal-of-pride-flags-on-arran\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T13:37:53","slug":"police-probe-hate-crime-over-removal-of-pride-flags-on-arran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/police-probe-hate-crime-over-removal-of-pride-flags-on-arran\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe hate crime over removal of pride flags on Arran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police are investigating the removal of Pride decorations from a street in Arran as a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Officers on the island launched a probe after flags were pulled down from Main Street in Brodick between 02:00 and 07:00, ahead of the Arran Pride event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Reports on social media said some of the flags had been torn from their posts and  later found dumped on the beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Organisers of the event said they had been made aware that decorations had been removed by &#8220;an unknown group&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgq3ekyjeveo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating the removal of Pride decorations from a street in Arran as a hate crime. Officers on the island launched a probe after flags were pulled down from Main Street in Brodick between 02:00 and 07:00, ahead of the Arran Pride event. Reports on social media said some of the flags had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[10311,1920,5750,2331,599,8595,1327,10310],"class_list":["post-30065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-arran","tag-crime","tag-flags","tag-hate","tag-police","tag-pride","tag-probe","tag-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30067,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065\/revisions\/30067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}