{"id":181471,"date":"2022-06-27T15:53:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T07:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=181471"},"modified":"2022-06-27T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T07:53:26","slug":"stampede-at-new-york-pride-parade-after-fireworks-mistaken-for-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=181471","title":{"rendered":"Stampede at New York Pride parade after fireworks mistaken for gunfire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-06\/cufoihs_new-york-pride-parade_625x300_27_June_22.jpg\" alt=\"Stampede At New York Pride Parade After Fireworks Mistaken For Gunfire\" title=\"Stampede At New York Pride Parade After Fireworks Mistaken For Gunfire\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">New York&#8217;s Pride parade is the second-largest in the United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW YORK, June 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A stampede occurred at a Pride parade in the US city of New York on Sunday, with hundreds of people attempting to flee after mistaking the sound of fireworks for gunfire, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There were NO shots fired in Washington Square Park. After an investigation, it was determined that the sound was fireworks set off at the location,&#8221; the NYPD said in a tweet shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said &#8220;there were no serious injuries&#8221; from the stampede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terrified people ran or walked briskly along a street adjacent to the square after the scare, videos on social media showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tens of thousands of people attended Sunday&#8217;s LGBTQIA+ Pride parade, which wound its way through the streets of lower Manhattan under the blazing sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The atmosphere was largely festive, although the shadow of Friday&#8217;s US Supreme Court decision to abolish a constitutional right to abortion &#8211; leaving states to legislate on the matter themselves &#8212; loomed over proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York&#8217;s Pride parade is the second-largest in the United States, after San Francisco, and Sunday&#8217;s gathering was the first time it had taken place since the Covid-19 pandemic began. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s Pride parade is the second-largest in the United States NEW YORK, June 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A stampede occurred at a Pride parade in the US city of New York on Sunday, with hundreds of people attempting to flee after mistaking the sound of fireworks for gunfire, police said. &#8220;There were NO shots fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181474,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181471\/revisions\/181474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}