{"id":7709,"date":"2014-10-10T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=7709"},"modified":"2014-10-10T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T21:04:13","slug":"two-charged-in-video-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=7709","title":{"rendered":"Two charged in video assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PoliceBlotter-300x256.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-958570\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PoliceBlotter-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"PoliceBlotter\" \/><\/a>COATESVILLE \u2014 Two city youths were charged Wednesday in the assault of an elderly male victim \u2014 thanks to various tips and information provided to police by local residents.<\/p>\n<p>City police withheld the names of suspects \u2014 two 16 year olds \u2014 who were charged with attacking the man on the 100 block of East Lincoln Highway, Monday evening.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police said that the two approached the man and asked him about a sports jersey he was wearing, before one of the two struck the man, while the other shot video of the incident. Police said the two were engaged in a new trend called &#8220;slap cam&#8221; where one individual hits an unsuspecting victim while another records it.<\/p>\n<p>Both suspects were remanded to the Chester County Juvenile Detention Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COATESVILLE \u2014 Two city youths were charged Wednesday in the assault of an elderly male victim \u2014 thanks to various tips and information provided to police by local residents. City police withheld the names of suspects \u2014 two 16 year olds \u2014 who were charged with attacking the man on the 100 block of East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[185,488,4724],"class_list":["post-7709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-coatesville","tag-police","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7713,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}