{"id":8171,"date":"2015-02-11T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/11\/racist-attack-at-tesco-store\/"},"modified":"2015-02-11T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:42:34","slug":"racist-attack-at-tesco-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/11\/racist-attack-at-tesco-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist Attack At Tesco Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Police Appeal For Calm Following Incident<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/tesco-sikh-attack-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police have appealed for calm after a 24-year-old man was attacked with a \u2018huge knife\u2019 at a Tesco store. Zack Davies is said to have shouted \u2018white power\u2019 whilst attacking Sarandev Singh Bhambra, who had been on his lunch break.  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Senior Investigating Officer DCI Alun Oldfield said &#8220;I would like to reassure the local community that this appears to be an isolated incident and from our enquiries to date we believe Davies was acting alone and we are not seeking anyone else in connection with this assault.\u00a0 Crimes of this nature are extremely rare. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 24 year old victim remains in hospital with serious life changing injuries.\u00a0\u00a0 He and his family are being supported by specialist Family Liaison Officers.\u00a0 I am aware there is speculation on Social Media about the assault and I can confirm we are treating it as a hate related, racially and religiously motivated incident.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Charandeep Singh from the Sikh Channel said that Sikh\u2019s were now living in fear. \u201cThe police across the United Kingdom should be allocating resources towards the security of the Sikh community and religious establishments in addition to those for the general public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe media has openly and rightly reported the vulnerability of the Jewish community but by an large remain mute regarding the Sikhs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Appeal For Calm Following Incident Police have appealed for calm after a 24-year-old man was attacked with a \u2018huge knife\u2019 at a Tesco store. Zack Davies is said to have shouted \u2018white power\u2019 whilst attacking Sarandev Singh Bhambra, who had been on his lunch break. &#13; Senior Investigating Officer DCI Alun Oldfield said &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}