{"id":33899,"date":"2021-05-20T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T23:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=33899"},"modified":"2021-05-20T23:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T23:02:36","slug":"george-nkencho-killing-the-door-closed-and-then-i-heard-the-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=33899","title":{"rendered":"George Nkencho killing: &#8216;The door closed and then I heard the shots&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last year a black man called George was killed by a police officer, not in Minneapolis but in Dublin in Ireland. George Nkencho was shot outside his family\u2019s home. <\/p>\n<p>His family say he was in the midst of a mental health crisis.  <\/p>\n<p>He had assaulted someone and police say he was carrying a knife. <\/p>\n<p>It was only the sixth fatal shooting by the Irish police in 22 years. <\/p>\n<p>BBC Population reporter, Stephanie Hegarty, has been to Dublin to see how the killing has exposed tensions in Ireland as a new, diverse community comes of age. <\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced and directed by: Yousef Eldin<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Edited by: Natalia Zuo<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Graphic design: Sholto Crow<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Executive producer: Claire Williams<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-57194011\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year a black man called George was killed by a police officer, not in Minneapolis but in Dublin in Ireland. George Nkencho was shot outside his family\u2019s home. His family say he was in the midst of a mental health crisis. He had assaulted someone and police say he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p09j6142.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}