{"id":490,"date":"2013-06-17T02:40:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T02:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=490"},"modified":"2016-12-12T02:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T02:40:53","slug":"statement-by-council-speaker-christine-c-quinn-re-reports-of-office-of-city-medical-examiners-handling-of-kevin-bells-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2013\/06\/17\/490\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn. Re: Reports of Office of City Medical Examiner\u2019s handling of Kevin Bell\u2019s remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am deeply concerned to learn that a young man\u2019s corpse was treated by OCME in such an undignified way. The treatment of the deceased reflects the respect that we have for human life itself. OCME staff showed an utter lack of respect for Kevin Bell, and this incident is the latest in a string of troubling occurrences in the Office over the past several months. On June 24, the City Council\u2019s Health Committee plans to get to the bottom of how and why this \u2013 and other concerning incidents \u2013 have been allowed to happen in order to stop them from happening again. My thoughts and prayers are with the victim\u2019s family and friends during this difficult and heartbreaking time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am deeply concerned to learn that a young man\u2019s corpse was treated by OCME in such an undignified way. The treatment of the deceased reflects the respect that we have for human life itself. OCME staff showed an utter lack of respect for Kevin Bell, and this incident is the latest in a string of troubling occurrences in the Office over the past several months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2013\/06\/17\/490\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/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-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}