{"id":3189,"date":"2026-07-21T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:58:41","slug":"statement-from-speaker-julie-menin-and-council-member-joann-ariola-on-death-of-sgt-angel-sarah-rampersad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2026\/07\/21\/3189\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Joann Ariola on Death of Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NEW YORK, NY<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;New York City Council Speaker and Council Member Joann Ariola issued the following statement regarding the likely death of&nbsp;Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTonight, our city mourns the presumed loss of&nbsp;Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad, an Ozone Park resident who died this past weekend in Jordan serving her country. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends as they grieve the loss of their beloved. As this conflict continues in the Middle East, we pray that all our service members remain safe and return home to their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>###<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK, NY<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;New York City Council Speaker and Council Member Joann Ariola issued the following statement regarding the likely death of&nbsp;Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight, our city mourns the presumed loss of&nbsp;Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad, an Ozone Park resident who died this past weekend in Jordan serving her country. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends as they grieve the loss of their beloved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2026\/07\/21\/3189\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","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\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}