{"id":1794,"date":"2019-08-19T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:10:14","slug":"statement-by-council-speaker-corey-johnson-on-police-commissioner-james-oneills-decision-to-fire-officer-daniel-pantaleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/08\/19\/1794\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT BY COUNCIL SPEAKER COREY JOHNSON ON POLICE COMMISSIONER JAMES O\u2019NEILL\u2019S DECISION TO FIRE OFFICER DANIEL PANTALEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe<br \/>\nfamily of Eric Garner has been waiting five long years for justice. It is my<br \/>\nhope that they get some peace and closure after today. The reality is that Eric<br \/>\nGarner would still be alive were it not for Mr. Pantaleo&#8217;s actions, and while<br \/>\nthe system has failed Eric Garner\u2019s family repeatedly for the past 5 years, at<br \/>\nleast the right thing was done today. I commend Police Commissioner James<br \/>\nO\u2019Neill for his decision to fire Mr. Pantaleo. Mr. Pantaleo does not belong in<br \/>\nthe NYPD, and I am glad to see that this is now the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe<br \/>\nfamily of Eric Garner has been waiting five long years for justice. It is my<br \/>\nhope that they get some peace and closure after today. The reality is that Eric<br \/>\nGarner would still be alive were it not for Mr. Pantaleo&#8217;s actions, and while<br \/>\nthe system has failed Eric Garner\u2019s family repeatedly for the past 5 years, at<br \/>\nleast the right thing was done today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/08\/19\/1794\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","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\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}