{"id":3615,"date":"2021-11-09T02:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T01:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/09\/girl-rescued-in-us-after-using-tiktok-domestic-violence-hand-signal-video\/"},"modified":"2021-11-09T02:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T01:51:47","slug":"girl-rescued-in-us-after-using-tiktok-domestic-violence-hand-signal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/09\/girl-rescued-in-us-after-using-tiktok-domestic-violence-hand-signal-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl rescued in US after using TikTok domestic violence hand signal \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old girl was rescued in Kentucky after using a hand gesture described on the social media app\u00a0TikTok\u00a0to signal to motorists that she was in trouble. The signal \u2013 turning the palm outwards and closing the fingers around a tucked thumb \u2013 has been demonstrated by users on\u00a0TikTok\u00a0and by non-profit organisations like the<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianwomen.org\/\"> Canadian Women&#8217;s Foundation<\/a> as a way for a person being abused to tell someone they are in trouble without alerting the abuser. &#8216;That hand gesture was everything,&#8217; Gilbert Acciardo from the Laurel county sheriff&#8217;s office said. &#8216;Had that not been been transmitted by the young lady, had there not been someone out there that knew how to interpret what she was doing, then who knows? We might not have had a good resolution on this&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/08\/teenager-rescued-after-showing-domestic-violence-hand-signal-to-passing-motorist-police-say\">Teen rescued after showing domestic violence hand signal known on TikTok, police say<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/video\/2021\/nov\/08\/girl-rescued-in-us-after-using-tiktok-domestic-violence-hand-signal-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fed91501f883d535b1e5a3c7cb2dd4f7682823bf\/69_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8d2552155a371c337e12cfa93945877f\" title=\"Girl rescued in US after using TikTok domestic violence hand signal \u2013 video\" \/>A 16-year-old girl was rescued in Kentucky after using a hand gesture described on the social media app\u00a0TikTok\u00a0to signal to motorists that she was in trouble. The signal \u2013 turning the palm outwards and closing the fingers around a tucked thumb \u2013 has been demonstrated by users on\u00a0TikTok\u00a0and by non-profit organisations like the Canadian Women&#8217;s Foundation as a way for a person being abused to tell someone they are in trouble without alerting the abuser. &#8216;That hand gesture was everything,&#8217; Gilbert Acciardo from the Laurel county sheriff&#8217;s office said. &#8216;Had that not been been transmitted by the young lady, had there not been someone out there that knew how to interpret what she was doing, then who knows? We might not have had a good resolution on this&#8217;<br \/>\nTeen rescued after showing domestic violence hand signal known on TikTok, police say<br \/>\nContinue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old girl was rescued in Kentucky after using a hand gesture described on the social media app\u00a0TikTok\u00a0to signal to motorists that she was in trouble. The signal \u2013 turning the palm outwards and closing the fingers around a tucked thumb \u2013 has been demonstrated by users on\u00a0TikTok\u00a0and by non-profit organisations like the Canadian Women&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/09\/girl-rescued-in-us-after-using-tiktok-domestic-violence-hand-signal-video\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Girl rescued in US after using TikTok domestic violence hand signal \u2013 video<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}