{"id":10546,"date":"2021-01-20T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118396\/can-flashy-action-packed-pr-video-hong-kong-police-win"},"modified":"2021-01-20T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:00:19","slug":"can-a-flashy-action-packed-pr-video-by-hong-kong-police-win-them-new-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/can-a-flashy-action-packed-pr-video-by-hong-kong-police-win-them-new-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a flashy, action-packed PR video by Hong Kong police win them new supporters?"},"content":{"rendered":"A dramatic promotional video aimed at giving a public relations boost to Hong Kong\u2019s embattled police force is getting a sceptical reception even before its release this weekend in a city where many remain resentful about law-enforcement action during the 2019 anti-government protests.The flashy production that shows elite officers racing to rescue people taken hostage during a simulated terrorist attack was a waste of taxpayer dollars and an attempt to whitewash the force\u2019s past failures,\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118396\/can-flashy-action-packed-pr-video-hong-kong-police-win\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic promotional video aimed at giving a public relations boost to Hong Kong\u2019s embattled police force is getting a sceptical reception even before its release this weekend in a city where many remain resentful about law-enforcement action during &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10547,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions\/10547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}