{"id":27189,"date":"2018-08-21T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27189"},"modified":"2018-08-21T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T10:12:11","slug":"men-brawling-outside-shops-on-coventry-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/21\/men-brawling-outside-shops-on-coventry-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Men brawling outside shops on Coventry Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two groups of men were involved in a brawl outside shops in broad daylight, on Coventry Road in Sheldon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It starts with two men being pushed to the ground near a bus stop. They spring back up and about six men get involved in a startling stand-off.<\/p>\n<p>The scenes stretched out on Coventry Road, Sheldon, around 2.50pm on Friday, in full observation of pedestrians, motorists, shoppers and families on their summer holidays.<\/p>\n<p>One car can be seen hastily trying to leave the scene and a pair of females are spotted looking on in fear.<\/p>\n<p>The police were notified but the fighters had scattered by the time they arrived.<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said: \u201cPolice were called to reports of men fighting on the Coventry Road at around 2.50pm on Friday afternoon (17 August).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers were immediately dispatched but the group had already dispersed when officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite an extensive search of the area no one matching the descriptions was found and no complaints were received.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone with any information can call police on 101 quoting log number 1450 of 17\/08\/18.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been a number of occurrences of violence spilling on to our streets since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two groups of men were involved in a brawl outside shops in broad daylight, on Coventry Road in Sheldon. It starts with two men being pushed to the ground near a bus stop. They spring back up and about six men get involved in a startling stand-off. The scenes stretched out on Coventry Road, Sheldon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":27190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[264,900,1446,1447,1356],"class_list":["post-27189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham","tag-brawl","tag-coventry-road","tag-sheldon","tag-west-midlands-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}