{"id":1789,"date":"2019-08-02T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2019-08-02T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:12:50","slug":"statement-by-speaker-corey-johnson-on-recommendation-to-terminate-nypd-officer-daniel-pantaleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/08\/02\/1789\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Corey Johnson on Recommendation to Terminate NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis decision is long overdue. It should not have taken five years to determine what the public clearly understood in five minutes: Officer Pantaleo used an illegal chokehold on Eric Garner, which ultimately led to his death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow Police Commissioner O\u2019Neill must act. Pantaleo must be fired immediately. Nothing will bring back Mr. Garner, but I hope this decision gives the Garner family some peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis decision is long overdue. It should not have taken five years to determine what the public clearly understood in five minutes: Officer Pantaleo used an illegal chokehold on Eric Garner, which ultimately led to his death. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow Police Commissioner O\u2019Neill must act. Pantaleo must be fired immediately. Nothing will bring back Mr. Garner, but I hope this decision gives the Garner family some peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}