{"id":344,"date":"2014-08-01T21:22:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T21:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=344"},"modified":"2016-12-09T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T21:23:07","slug":"statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-re-ocme-ruling-on-death-of-eric-garner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2014\/08\/01\/344\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Re: OCME Ruling on Death of Eric Garner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe ruling by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that Eric Garner\u2019s death was a homicide should give greater clarity to the investigation by Staten Island District Attorney Donovan. Mr. Garner\u2019s death was disturbing and District Attorney Donovan must conduct a thorough and transparent investigation.  My thoughts remain with the family and friends of Mr. Garner, many of whom I\u2019ve met these past few weeks, and the City Council will continue to work with the administration and members of the community moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe ruling by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that Eric Garner\u2019s death was a homicide should give greater clarity to the investigation by Staten Island District Attorney Donovan. Mr. Garner\u2019s death was disturbing and District Attorney Donovan must conduct a thorough and transparent investigation.  My thoughts remain with the family and friends of Mr. Garner, many of whom I\u2019ve met these past few weeks, and the City Council will continue to work with the administration and members of the community moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}