{"id":219977,"date":"2026-05-04T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219977\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:36:08","slug":"chuck-park-candidate-for-congress-in-queens-arrested-during-may-day-protest-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219977\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Park, candidate for Congress in Queens, arrested during May Day protest \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chuck Park, a candidate for Congress challenging U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, was arrested during a peaceful May Day protest Friday around 3 p.m. for blocking pedestrian traffic in front of the New York Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n

Courtesy Chuck for Queens<\/p>\n

Chuck Park<\/a>, a candidate for Congress challenging U.S. Rep. Grace Meng in Queens, was arrested by the NYPD Strategic Response Group while peacefully protesting alongside Sunrise Movement<\/a> during a May Day demonstration outside the New York Stock Exchange around 3 p.m. on on Friday, May 1.<\/p>\n

Park\u2019s team said he was released about three hours later around 6 p.m.\u00a0 He was charged with failure to disperse and blocking pedestrian traffic \u2014 charges his team said were \u201ccommonly associated\u201d with acts of civil disobedience \u2014 and issued a desk appearance ticket.<\/p>\n

According to a public information officer, Park was arrested alongside 24 other protesters for blocking multiple entrances to the building.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The officer said 23 of the individuals arrested at the demonstration were issued criminal court<\/a> summonses. Park and another individual were issued desk appearance tickets.<\/p>\n

The officer did not provide additional details of the circumstances that preceded the arrests, nor did they confirm whether protesters were given warnings before the NYPD took action.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t take it anymore,\u201d Park can be heard saying in a video of his arrest shared by his team. \u201cWe have to tax the rich. I\u2019m being arrested because billionaires have bought our democracy. We gotta tax the rich. Working people of Queens, we gotta fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Park\u2019s team, more than 100 New Yorkers were present at the May 1 rally, which was intended to commemorate May Day, or International Workers\u2019 Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said his attendance reflects Park\u2019s longstanding commitment to standing with working people and fighting for economic justice.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cFor too long the establishment has prioritized billionaires and corporate oligarchs over the interests of millions of laborers and union members who keep NYC running,\u201d his team wrote to QNS, echoing Park\u2019s words during his arrest. \u201cIt\u2019s time to tax the rich and make billionaires finally pay their fair share.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team added that Park\u2019s participation in this peaceful protest is \u201cfully aligned with the values at the core of his campaign\u201d and pointed to a statement he made ahead of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay Day honors the working class activists who fought and bled for the eight-hour work day,\u201d Park\u2019s statement read. \u201cIt\u2019s also a call to action. Action. Not statements and tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chuck Park, a candidate for Congress challenging U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, was arrested during a peaceful May Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-219977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219977","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=219977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}