{"id":89188,"date":"2020-02-04T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89188"},"modified":"2020-02-04T06:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:46:21","slug":"church-times-priest-speaks-of-communitys-resilience-after-streatham-knife-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89188","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Priest speaks of community\u2019s \u2018resilience\u2019 after Streatham knife attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rector of St Leonard\u2019s, Streatham, the Revd Anna Norman-Walker, has praised the \u201cresilience and neighbourliness\u201d of the diverse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/diocese-of-southwark\">south-London<\/a> community, after a suspected terrorist stabbed two people just metres from the rectory before being shot dead by police, on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The man, named as Sudesh Amman, aged 20, was wearing a fake suicide vest when he stole a kitchen knife from a general store and stabbed a man and a woman on Streatham High Road. He was chased by plain-clothes officers before being shot several times by uniformed police.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Norman-Walker was arriving back at the rectory, at about 2 p.m., when she heard gunshots. \u201cMy daughter and I just got back from the church brunch, and we heard gunshots,\u201d she said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it was a car back-firing, but it was five consecutive bangs. Suddenly, people came down our road, just off the High Road, and very quickly \u2014 within minutes \u2014 police cars were blocking the road, cordoned tape went up, and helicopters came down. It was quite extraordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2020\/7-february\/news\/uk\/priest-speaks-of-community-s-resilience-after-streatham-knife-attacks\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LATEST. The Rector of St Leonard\u2019s, Streatham, the Revd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anormanwalker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@anormanwalker<\/a> , has praised the \u201cresilience and neighbourliness\u201d of the diverse south-London community, after a suspected terrorist stabbed two people just metres from the rectory<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UphAjK1Y7a\">https:\/\/t.co\/UphAjK1Y7a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hattie Williams (@hattieewilliams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hattieewilliams\/status\/1224342375260131330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rector of St Leonard\u2019s, Streatham, the Revd Anna Norman-Walker, has praised the \u201cresilience and neighbourliness\u201d of the diverse south-London community, after a suspected terrorist stabbed two people just metres from the rectory before being shot dead by police, on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89188\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,199,184,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89192,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89188\/revisions\/89192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}