{"id":73492,"date":"2020-11-19T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.140.144.153\/2020\/11\/19\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:33:42","slug":"police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-responsive-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k2qcmr2Kctlh0vwsAbK\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German police fires water cannon to disperse thousands of unmasked protesters who had massed in central Berlin to demonstrate against government measures to curb the spread of coronavirus. After repeated warnings for the crowd to put on face coverings went unheeded, police said they would take action to clear the protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1076,1539],"tags":[126,31974],"class_list":["post-73492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-berlin","tag-shutdown-protest","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"German police fires water cannon to disperse thousands of unmasked protesters who had massed in central Berlin to demonstrate against government measures to curb the spread of coronavirus. After repeated warnings for the crowd to put on face coverings went unheeded, police said they would take action to clear the protest.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-19T15:33:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\"},\"headline\":\"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-19T15:33:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":17,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Berlin\",\"shutdown protest\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"World\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/\",\"name\":\"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest - GuardianTV\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-19T15:33:42+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"GuardianTV\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\",\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/author\\\/abiodun\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest - GuardianTV","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest - GuardianTV","og_description":"German police fires water cannon to disperse thousands of unmasked protesters who had massed in central Berlin to demonstrate against government measures to curb the spread of coronavirus. After repeated warnings for the crowd to put on face coverings went unheeded, police said they would take action to clear the protest.","og_url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/","og_site_name":"GuardianTV","article_published_time":"2020-11-19T15:33:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Abiodun Ogundairo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Abiodun Ogundairo"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/"},"author":{"name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1"},"headline":"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest","datePublished":"2020-11-19T15:33:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/"},"wordCount":17,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg","keywords":["Berlin","shutdown protest"],"articleSection":["News","World"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/","name":"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest - GuardianTV","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg","datePublished":"2020-11-19T15:33:42+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-Berlin-shutdown-protest.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/police-fire-water-cannon-to-clear-berlin-shutdown-protest\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Police fire water cannon to clear Berlin shutdown protest"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","name":"GuardianTV","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization","name":"GuardianTV","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","width":600,"height":96,"caption":"GuardianTV"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1","name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/author\/abiodun\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}