{"id":6317,"date":"2023-04-27T21:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/eps-arrest-draws-ire-of-muslim-council\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T21:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:25:50","slug":"eps-arrest-draws-ire-of-muslim-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/eps-arrest-draws-ire-of-muslim-council\/","title":{"rendered":"EPS arrest draws ire of Muslim Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E_oaP9D2vUE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The National Council of Canadian Muslims is calling out a &#8220;violent arrest&#8221; made by Edmonton police of a Black Muslim man during Eid.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Wednesday, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) said the man, who has not being named to protect his and his family&#8217;s privacy, was leaving a south Edmonton mosque on April 21 after taking part in the Friday prayer.<\/p>\n<p>The man, wearing traditional clothing including a turban and thobe, was driving the vehicle with his wife and young children also inside. He was pulled over by Edmonton police for reportedly going 47 km\/h in a 30 km\/h zone.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of Canadian Muslims is calling out a &#8220;violent arrest&#8221; made by Edmonton police of a Black Muslim man during Eid. In a statement released Wednesday, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) said the man, who has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32,2142,39,55,41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}