{"id":143730,"date":"2020-05-11T15:44:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/11\/bbc-reporter-racially-abused-while-reporting-on-covid-19-in-leicester\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:44:48","slug":"bbc-reporter-racially-abused-while-reporting-on-covid-19-in-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=143730","title":{"rendered":"BBC reporter racially abused while reporting on Covid-19 in Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigating after Sima Kotecha reports a man shouting \u2018terrible things\u2019 at her, her team and guestsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePolice are investigating after a BBC reporter said she was racially abused while filming a coronavirus report from Leicester city centre.Sima Kotecha, a BBC news reporter, was preparing to broadcast on Sunday evening following Boris Johnson\u2019s address to the nation when a man began shouting \u201cterrible things\u201d at her, the crew and their guests. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/may\/11\/bbc-reporter-racially-abused-while-reporting-on-covid-19-in-leicester\" target=\"_blank\">BBC reporter racially abused while reporting on Covid-19 in Leicester<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigating after Sima Kotecha reports a man shouting \u2018terrible things\u2019 at her, her team and guestsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePolice are investigating after a BBC reporter said she was racially abused while filming a coronavirus report from Leicester city centre.Sima Kotecha, a BBC news reporter, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}