{"id":89966,"date":"2016-09-28T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=89966"},"modified":"2016-09-29T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:48:00","slug":"young-girl-charlotte-speech-police-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/young-girl-charlotte-speech-police-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Girl Delivers Powerful Message in Light of Police Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One little\u00a0girl\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/2016\/09\/124620\/zianna-oliphant-police-violence-charlotte-speech\" target=\"_blank\">had something powerful to say<\/a>\u00a0in light of the recent police violence.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-grader Zianna Oliphant spoke at the first Charlotte City Council meeting since violent protests threatened the city after the killing of Keith Lamont Scott.<\/p>\n<p>She was barely tall enough to reach\u00a0the microphone but delivered a peaceful and emotional message addressing\u00a0police brutality\u00a0which has rattled the nation. She started off her emotional speech said\u00a0she felt that &#8220;we are treated differently than other people&#8221; before erupting into tears. But she continued with her speech:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are black people and we shouldn&#8217;t have to feel like this. We shouldn&#8217;t have to protest because y&#8217;all are treating us wrong. We do this because we need to and have rights. I&#8217;ve been born and raised in Charlotte&#8230;and I&#8217;ve never felt this way until now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"One little\u00a0girl\u00a0had something powerful to say\u00a0in light of the recent police violence. Fourth-grader Zianna Oliphant ...","author":422344,"featured_media":89972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/28101951\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-28-at-10.18.16-AM-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/28101951\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-28-at-10.18.16-AM.jpg","formated_date":"September 28, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#f49953","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}