{"id":877756,"date":"2020-06-01T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=877756"},"modified":"2020-06-01T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T13:59:41","slug":"peaceful-protests-in-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=877756","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful protests in Longview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-877757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/06\/police-longview-shield-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; Peaceful protesters in Longview showed up at the police department over the weekend, holding signs and a moment of prayer. According to our news partner KETK, Longview Police Chief Mike Bishop was among those in uniform. The chief said, &#8220;Our officers and our agency are just as appalled as the community as to what occurred with Mr. Floyd.&#8221; Chief Bishop continued, &#8220;We want the citizens to know that we respect their right to peacefully protest.&#8221; Many people in the crowd we asking for more insight into diversity training for East Texas officers. The gathering ended with a moment of silence for George Floyd. Longview Mayor Andy Mack said in a post on Facebook, &#8220;People are welcome to have peaceful protests at any time in our City.&#8221;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Peaceful protesters in Longview showed up at the police department over the weekend, holding signs and a moment of prayer. According to our news partner KETK, Longview Police Chief Mike Bishop was among those in uniform. The chief said, &#8220;Our officers and our agency are just as appalled as the community as to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=877756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peaceful protests in Longview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 00:04:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}