{"id":5125,"date":"2013-12-02T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T23:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2013-12-02T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T23:54:27","slug":"first-killing-by-cops-ever-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/02\/first-killing-by-cops-ever-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"First Killing By Cops Ever In Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-25190119#TWEET972719\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from BBC News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Rare Iceland armed police operation leaves man dead<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aerial view of Reykjavik, 2005\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/71480000\/jpg\/_71480902_71480901.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>The incident took place in the east of Reykjavik<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Icelandic police have shot dead a man who was firing a shotgun in his apartment in the early hours of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time someone has been killed in an armed police operation in Iceland, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Tear gas canisters were fired through the windows in an attempt to subdue the 59-year-old, who lived in the east of the capital, Reykjavik.<\/p>\n<p>When this failed he was shot after firing at police entering the building. Between 15 and 20 officers took part.<\/p>\n<p>Back-up was provided by special forces.<\/p>\n<p>The tear gas was used when the man, who has not been named, failed to respond to police attempts to contact him and continued shooting.<\/p>\n<p>When they entered the apartment, two members of the special forces were injured by shotgun fire &#8211; one in the face, the other in the hand.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-25190119#TWEET972719\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at BBC News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BBC News Rare Iceland armed police operation leaves man dead The incident took place in the east of Reykjavik Icelandic police have shot dead a man who was firing a shotgun in his apartment in the early hours of Monday. It is the first time someone has been killed in an armed police operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}