{"id":42901,"date":"2016-07-11T18:07:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=42901"},"modified":"2016-07-11T18:07:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:07:51","slug":"what-happened-when-a-black-lives-matter-protest-group-met-a-counter-protest-group-on-the-streets-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=42901","title":{"rendered":"What happened when a Black Lives Matter protest group met a counter-protest group on the streets in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcnn%2Fvideos%2F10155021168221509%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Protesters, counter protesters \u2018clash\u2019 in Dallas in heartwarming way<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BY KFOR-TV &amp; K. QUERRY<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS, Texas \u2013 The events of last week have left many people across the country to feel an array of emotions.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets of Dallas to bring attention to police brutality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t just sit back and feel this way without trying to change it,\u201d Britny Morrison told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the street, a counter protest was occurring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, black lives matter and stuff. We all matter,\u201d Chris Rice said.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, organizers of both protests met in the middle to speak to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter protesters decided to cross the street and meet the counter protesters face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting resulted in hugs and prayers for the entire community.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer, who had been stationed to separate the protesters, joined them in prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters, counter protesters \u2018clash\u2019 in Dallas in heartwarming way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}