{"id":80443,"date":"2026-07-29T03:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/india-cockroach-protests-videos-of-officers-firing-pellet-guns\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:57:39","slug":"india-cockroach-protests-videos-of-officers-firing-pellet-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/india-cockroach-protests-videos-of-officers-firing-pellet-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"India cockroach protests: Videos of officers firing &#8216;pellet guns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Indian capital Delhi as part of the cockroach protests, calling for educational reforms and the resignation of a government minister. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify has been analysing videos from across the capital, which show security officers firing so-called pellet guns towards protesters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Central Reserve Police Force didn&#8217;t respond to our questions about the use of pellet guns and the injuries protesters appeared to sustain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It told media in India it was premature to comment and it was looking into events. Merlyn Thomas and Shruti Menon reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Sophie Bott. Graphics by Sally Nicholls.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cgje5l292g2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Indian capital Delhi as part of the cockroach protests, calling for educational reforms and the resignation of a government minister. BBC Verify has been analysing videos from across the capital, which show security officers firing so-called pellet guns towards protesters. The Central Reserve Police Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[9474,19233,9979,349,3487,21291,732,2546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80445,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80443\/revisions\/80445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}