{"id":535,"date":"2006-08-28T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2006-08-28T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T20:14:00","slug":"brixton-tube-metal-detectors-and-submachine-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-tube-metal-detectors-and-submachine-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton tube: metal detectors and submachine-guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/features\/images\/police-tube-03.jpg\" title=\"Brixton tube police and guns\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Came out of the tube around 4pm today to find a ton of cops in the station, with travellers being directed through an airport style, full body metal detector.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/features\/images\/police-tube-02.jpg\" title=\"Brixton tube\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The presence was heavy &#8211; at least three armed police at the top of the stairs carried pistols *and* machine guns!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the armed-to-the-teeth police presence was there to &#8216;dissuade&#8217; people form carrying knives to the Carnival in Notting Hill. <\/p>\n<p>More photos here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/features\/brixton-tube.html\">armed police at Brixton tube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came out of the tube around 4pm today to find a ton of cops in the station, with travellers being directed through an airport style, full body metal detector. The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/police-tube-03.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-8D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}