{"id":126275,"date":"2023-12-30T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126275"},"modified":"2023-12-30T12:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T17:42:49","slug":"siegel-statement-on-allentown-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126275","title":{"rendered":"Siegel statement on Allentown shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ALLENTOWN, Dec. 30 &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>State Rep. Joshua Siegel released the following statement on the shootings in Allentown overnight:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI awoke this morning like many members of our community, sickened, angry and heartbroken over another night of senseless violence in our city. I offer my sincerest condolences to the families afflicted by last night\u2019s shootings, and I stand with the many Allentonians who are tired of watching their neighborhoods and streets be stained with the blood of gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stand with the brave men and women of the Allentown Police Department, who I know will bring the cowards and perpetrators of these acts to certain and swift punishment. Those who would take the life of a child, shatter the security of our city and the peace of mind of our residents deserve to know, justice will be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllentown is a resilient city, and I know we won\u2019t let these tragedies define us. I have endless faith in our community partners, our police department, and our stakeholders to work together to bring safety and security to every neighborhood and every block. I stand ready to support them in whatever way they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nAmy Hartman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Dec. 30 &#8212;\u00a0State Rep. Joshua Siegel released the following statement on the shootings in Allentown overnight: \u201cI awoke this morning like many members of our community, sickened, angry and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Siegel statement on Allentown shootings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/rep-Josh-Siegel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}