{"id":220147,"date":"2026-05-05T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220147\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:02:10","slug":"chuck-park-candidate-for-congress-in-queens-arrested-during-may-day-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220147\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Park, candidate for Congress in Queens, arrested during May Day protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/03\/chuck-park-2026-election-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunrisemovement.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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<p>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<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/05\/chuck-park-arrested-may-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tChuck Park, candidate for Congress in Queens, arrested during May Day protest &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Chuck Park, a candidate for Congress challenging U.S. Rep. Grace Meng in Queens, was arrested by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-220147","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\/220147","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=220147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}