{"id":145608,"date":"2026-02-26T02:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145608\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:41:31","slug":"speaker-council-member-talk-bills-focused-on-combating-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145608\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker, council member talk bills focused on combating hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council held a hearing focused on a package of bills aimed at combating hate.<\/p>\n<p>One of the pieces of legislation would allow the NYPD to create buffer zones around houses of worship during protests.<\/p>\n<p>The council hearing comes in response to a rise in hate crimes since 2020 across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Councilmember Yusef Salaam joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Wednesday to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>Menin\u2019s district includes the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island. Salaam\u2019s district covers Harlem, East Harlem, Morningside Heights and Hamilton Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City Council held a hearing focused on a package of bills aimed at combating hate. One of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[378,25,377,379,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,380,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-145608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-inside-city-hall","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-inside-city-hall-segments","11":"tag-inside-city-hall-shows","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-manhattan-headlines","14":"tag-manhattan-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}