{"id":13185,"date":"2018-11-02T14:31:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2018-11-02T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:31:40","slug":"army-posts-trump-endorsing-soldiers-shooting-at-demonstrators-as-us-seeks-probe-of-shiites-soldiers-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13185","title":{"rendered":"Army posts Trump endorsing soldiers shooting at demonstrators as US seeks probe of Shiites, soldiers clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is seeking an investigation into the clash between the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and security operatives around Abuja.<br \/>\nThe call comes as the Nigerian Army, obviously justifying shooting at civilians posted on its Twitter handle a video of the American President, Donald Trump, backing soldiers shooting demonstrators throwing stones at soldiers.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13186\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181102-152450-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nIn a statement on Thursday, the United States says, \u201cThe United States Embassy is concerned by the deaths resulting from clashes between Nigerian security forces and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in the Abuja axis.<br \/>\n\u201cWe urge the Government of Nigeria authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the events and take appropriate action to hold accountable those responsible for violations of\u00a0the Nigerian law.<br \/>\n\u201cWe urge restraint on all sides\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is seeking an investigation into the clash between the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and security operatives around Abuja. The call comes as the Nigerian Army, obviously justifying shooting at civilians posted on its Twitter handle a video of the American President, Donald Trump, backing soldiers shooting demonstrators throwing stones at soldiers. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}