{"id":55949,"date":"2026-07-04T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/south-belfast-man-shouted-racial-abuse-and-sprayed-fire-extinguisher\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:39:14","slug":"south-belfast-man-shouted-racial-abuse-and-sprayed-fire-extinguisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/south-belfast-man-shouted-racial-abuse-and-sprayed-fire-extinguisher\/","title":{"rendered":"South Belfast: Man shouted racial abuse and sprayed fire extinguisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Police are investigating a racially motivated crime in which a man entered a restaurant and shouted abuse before spraying a fire extinguisher at customers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At around 21.00 BST on Friday, police said an &#8220;aggressive&#8221; man entered the restaurant in the University Street area of Belfast and began banging doors and shouting racial abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Police Service of Northern Ireland&#8217;s Belfast City Chief Inspector Kelly Gibson said the man then grabbed a fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He &#8220;took it outside the restaurant where he discharged it in the direction of outside diners, before leaving in the direction of Dudley Street while shouting further racial slurs&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Enquiries to identify the man are ongoing and police have asked anyone with further information to contact them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cr47pd25x7eo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a racially motivated crime in which a man entered a restaurant and shouted abuse before spraying a fire extinguisher at customers. At around 21.00 BST on Friday, police said an &#8220;aggressive&#8221; man entered the restaurant in the University Street area of Belfast and began banging doors and shouting racial abuse. The Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1457,420,15820,666,417,5048,15819,613,11451],"class_list":["post-55949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-abuse","tag-belfast","tag-extinguisher","tag-fire","tag-man","tag-racial","tag-shouted","tag-south","tag-sprayed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55949","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=55949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55951,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55949\/revisions\/55951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}