{"id":2996,"date":"2007-12-13T06:50:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T14:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/aggravated_assault_arson_burglary_grand_theft_treason_racketeering_robbery_murder_rape_kidnapping_and_noose_displaying.html"},"modified":"2007-12-13T06:50:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T14:50:43","slug":"aggravated_assa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/aggravated_assa.html","title":{"rendered":"Aggravated Assault, Arson, Burglary, Grand Theft, Treason, Racketeering, Robbery, Murder, Rape, Kidnapping And . . . Noose Displaying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, seriously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/68023\">a felony<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Council members will gather at City Hall today to call on the State Assembly to pass a law that would make the displaying of a noose a felony. &#8220;Right now if you hung a noose at City Hall trying to intimidate people, it&#8217;s not a crime,&#8221; Council Member Robert Jackson, who co-chairs the Council&#8217;s Black, Latino, and Asian caucus, said yesterday. &#8220;Considering that we live in New York City, the most diverse city in the world, we&#8217;re sending a message that we&#8217;re not going to tolerate hate or threats like that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, seriously, a felony: Council members will gather at City Hall today to call on the State Assembly to pass a law that would make the displaying of a noose a felony. &#8220;Right now if you hung a noose at City Hall trying to intimidate people, it&#8217;s not a crime,&#8221; Council Member Robert Jackson, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}