WEBVTT - Confronting Both Sides of The Gun 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.600 What's up. Family, it's your girl to meeke A D. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:12.280 Mallory and it's your and we're your hosts of street 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:19.640 politicians the place. And we've got our good old orange 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:25.480 T shirts on today which represent Gun Violence Awareness Month. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.800 This is the first week of g v a M, 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.159 which is a time in New York City where anti 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:39.160 violence organizations, advocates, partners, families, people who have been impacted 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.879 on either side of a gun, the shooter and or 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:48.159 the victim all come together to focus on, UH, the 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:54.040 anti violence movement, to bring attention, awareness, UM and support 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.240 to the movement. UH and really to uh just to 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.040 put some some attention and on the fact that there 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.200 are models that work. UH. And in New York City, 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.920 we have a model which we've you know, we'll be 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.520 talking much more about, called the crisis Management system. And 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.160 we know that over many years, the number of violent 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.880 crimes and violent incidents have been reduced by the work 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.840 of so many folks. UM. You all will see and 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:28.000 hear the footage of the press conference that happened today 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:34.680 where hundreds of anti violence activists, experts, organizers. UH. We're 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.840 at City Hall with UM, the city officials, City Council 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.440 members and other government officials, and of course UM, the 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.319 mayor of New York City, UM, and you know, standing 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.880 there announcing some important things that we'll talk about later 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.760 on this show. We have been doing this for a 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:59.880 long time, and history is going to show that the 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:07.240 first crisis management funding came from an idea I had 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:12.800 in the State Senate called snug gun spelled backwards first, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.920 allocation of money first, and it has moved into the 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:22.240 movement you see behind us. And so when people believe 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:28.080 that folks of color want to normalize gun violence in 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.960 their community, they are wrong. They are wrong. This is 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.400 a real issue that we want to attack head on. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.040 But what we don't want to do is minimize the 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.720 complete picture that must be addressed. By the time a 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:53.440 person picks up a gun, we've already failed, We've already 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.960 felt Now. I said this over and over again. There 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.720 many rivers that feed the seed of violence, and it's 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.519 time the damn every river, not just one with law enforcement. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.960 Damning every river is what we're going to do. The 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:13.640 epidemic of gun violence is not a New York problem. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:19.760 It's not a Democrat Republican problem. Tulsa is a red state. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.480 The shooting that took place, there was a rest state. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.200 Just an announcement came over just a few minutes ago 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:33.440 of a sixteen year old attempting to recruit others in 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:38.080 Berkeley to go in and shoot up a school. Every 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.720 day we're hearing about this. It's breaking our hearts, breaking 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.920 our bodies, and breaking our communities. When a bullet hits 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:52.160 the target, the physical bullet stops, but the emotional trauma 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:57.080 rips a path apart the anatomy of our entire community. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.880 And there have been more mass shootings, think about the 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.440 for a moment, More mass shooters in America than days 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:10.320 of the years. Unbelievable. And we've normalized it. We say 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.800 it's okay, and I think we often dismiss it because 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.160 the victim of handguns violence for the most part of 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.760 black and brown and in the inner cities all across America. 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.040 So we've normalized it and stated that that is just 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.400 the way it has to be. And we're saying today, 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.120 your damn right is not going to be that way. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.120 We could turn it around and make it happen. And yes, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.640 instead of g U and S, let me get you 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.920 another four letters, how about J. O. B. S. Let's 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.680 get our children jobs. Let's put them on a pathway 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.839 of employment. That's why we have a hundred thousand summer 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.599 youth jobs, first time in the city history. Thank you 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.920 Jermanni Williams for pushing this for years. That's why we're 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.440 pushing the tell corporate America we want to one paid 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:01.400 internship program throughout the school year leading into our force 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.719 to care children, to give them the support they need 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.920 so they don't age out at one, give them mentors 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.120 and to the All of these things are gonna help 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.159 us deal with this issue in a real way. Time 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.839 to take our city upstream and build real partnership with 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.080 people who are tired, as I am, of pulling people 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.560 out of the river downstream. This is our moment. You 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.200 do not elect me to do what everyone has done 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.919 in the past. You wanted a different outcomes and you 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.760 picked a different mayor. And trust me, it's a lot 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:40.560 of noise out there. Everybody's gonna critique us. Everybody's gonna 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.440 start telling why don't you pick this one, why don't 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.679 you pick that? Because I'm the mayor and we're gonna 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.520 make the decisions now to save our children. With the 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.000 level of urgency that we deserve today. What you'll see 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.440 behind us, it's not just the government made it happen, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.120 because to be clean there, we were told no every 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.720 time that we asked for resources. When we first started, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.920 we met with the mayor at the time and he 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.839 looked Erica Ford and not dead in the face and said, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.720 there is no proof that what you're trying to do 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:19.000 will work. But we proved it. They sent us back. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.119 They told us to get data. And all that Erica 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:26.520 has mentioned in terms of how many days, weeks, years, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:31.280 months went by without shootings in this city, we did 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:37.320 that together. Now, once the pandemic came, it changed a 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.120 lot for everybody. So stop trying to act like in 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.560 media who you are here, if you have any moral conscious, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:50.920 tell the true story. Violence is up everywhere. In fact, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:56.160 in nineteen sixty three, Malcolm X got in big trouble 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.479 for saying something that we see today much is that 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.599 the chickens are coming home to rules. As we see 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:10.280 shootings happening across this nation, shootings of all types, mass shootings, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:16.800 violence everywhere. Remember that this group we told you, we 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.480 told you what would happen. We gave you the forecast 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.640 of what would happen to this nation if we did 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.560 not deal with mental health, if we did not deal 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.960 with the lack of jobs and resources, if we did 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:35.840 not address food, deserts and other concerning issues in our community. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:40.280 We already told you that today would come, and so 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.320 if we are to go forward and this nation is 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:48.320 to be better, this group is an example of what 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:53.320 must come together in order to address those concerns. The 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.400 police force cannot do it alone. If they could have, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:01.440 c mess would have never been needed. The government cannot 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.600 do it alone. Half the time, they can't figure out 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.600 from one side to the other what to do. It 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.840 takes all of us. But the main thing is that 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:16.720 the people must be centered. I'm I'm a part of 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.840 a very robust route of advocates that I'm very proud 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.800 to be a member of and a lot of us 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.600 know each other respectfully. But thank you the man Adams 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.160 for naming me to be the Gun Violence Preventions are 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:41.040 in New York City. There's a new title. It's the 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:46.520 first ever, and it should be. As he mentioned, we 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.720 should want some things that are different. We've been dealing 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.480 with this issue for far too long, and we've been 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:56.080 using the same tactics over and over again, and we've 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.600 been getting the same results. So so so no one 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:05.080 should have a problem with us trying something different. Give 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.319 us a chance to prove our self work. We are 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.920 the people who are closest to the problem, so quite 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:17.240 naturally we have the answers to those problems. There's nobody 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.439 that wants gonna balanced in more than the young people 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.839 that come from the neighborhoods and the people who live 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:28.360 in this community every single day. And so this is 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:33.440 a community driven approach. When you hear about the state 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.000 or the FEDS and now the city, now include the community. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:43.880 That's the fourth flag of the chair that you're sitting on, Marsha. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:50.520 The community that we represent can create, as you heard 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.360 mentioned at this podium, solutions for themselves. And we're going 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.240 to work hand in sync with that community to make 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.880 sure that we deliver the things that they say that 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.520 they need, the things that they said that they want, 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.840 and these men and women behind me are trained to 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:11.320 deliver those resources into those neighborhoods where other people cannot go. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.080 You know, I'm I'm proud because I was one of 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.160 the first, very very few. There was three of us 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.840 who were the main leaders and no more than maybe 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.160 six or seven in the room at any given time 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:31.000 who put the crisis management system together. Architects. We were 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.959 the architects of this movement. Erica Ford was really the brainchild. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.520 She threw all of her thoughts on the board. UM. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.880 And Richard gupp Glover, who at the time I think 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.719 was at Columbia I think he was at Columbia UM. 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.760 He was a professor. He worked to help organize her thoughts. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.360 We did the advocacy work. Our brother A. T. Mitchell 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.920 and myself we worked together with Erica pulling it and 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.280 putting it and focusing and molding it to make the 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.480 crisis management system a real thing. And here we are 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.400 over a decade later. Um. You know, and the christ 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.000 and the Gun Violence Awareness Month came along later where 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.160 we decided that we had to have a month that 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.120 really every single day there'll be educational opportunities and other 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.679 moments for people to get together. So I was happy 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.679 to be in the hot sun today with all our 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.920 brothers and sisters. Yeah, I was definitely happy to be there. UM. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.640 Our brother A. T. As you mentioned he was. He 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.160 was announced to be the Tzar of Gun Violence and 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.360 Prevention of New York. So that was a big thing. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.600 You know, just he's somebody that a t I think 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.000 his mannerisms, the way they carried itself, you know, it's 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.200 it's just somebody that I look up to a call 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.040 for advice a lot, and he's been a mentor, you know, 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.080 he's been doing this work long way longer than I have. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:59.040 And he's um and he also respects my leadership at 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.439 a lot of times, and we just have a beautiful relationship. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.800 So seeing him, you know, appointing to this position, knowing 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.599 that it's in the right hands. He's somebody who definitely 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:14.240 takes this work serious, sleep and wakes up with this work, 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.720 who calls me, you know, and whenever something that's going on, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.000 it's like, what are we gonna do? Like that's this 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.560 is what we need to do. He comes up with strategy. So, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.439 you know, I was happy to see that. And then 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.679 there was so plethora of other individuals that I've known 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.440 throughout the years through different channels, some just being in 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.440 the streets, some from hip hop, some from just different channels, 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.760 and just seeing that they've invested their lives in this work, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.680 and I've seen them really transitioned with something good to 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.240 see and and just our family, you know, we've been 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.120 doing this work for so long. All of our friends 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.240 and family was out there in the sweltering heat, you 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.240 know so much all the way across the bridge. We 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.000 didn't make it to the full bridge march. But I 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.440 also see the young kids that I worked with at 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.640 Van Sickly Middle School. Um, they were there at the 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.360 march we put together. They actually put together this dope 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.800 um anti gun violence song that they allowed me to 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.480 feature on that were actually gonna be shooting the video 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.280 for in the next couple of days. So that's something 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.480 that you know, it was happy to see. And the principal, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.040 principal camp was there. You know. They have a beautiful 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:32.440 program and which Wednesdays is like career day everywhere you 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:37.240 able to every Wednesday for the first two hours, the 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:42.280 first two periods you go to either music program, uh 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.440 video program, any kind of program that you want to 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.800 do and you want to invest your time. And they 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.800 take the first two periods of every Wednesday and then 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.480 it's after school component until when you can go to 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.640 after school. But these people have the state of the 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.520 art studio. When I tell you, their studio is better 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.280 than the studio that I work like. They had a 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:08.880 full kids got a great studient day's studio in that school. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.679 It was just amazing. I never I'd be like, I've 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.160 seen different music rooms and they have a little mic 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.160 here and there set up, but this is a full 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.760 fledged studio. So shout out to in Sectra Middle School 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.120 in Principal Kemp, who who really invests in those children, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.560 Like you can see and you can see the investment 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.440 playing off because they're happy to be there. You know, 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.640 they're happy to come. They really are enthusiday doing something 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.400 they like. They're not just learning in this mundane setting 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.480 you know too where it's born. They're looking at the chalkboard. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.040 They're doing something that they like to do. So shout 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.200 out to them. Yeah, that's great. I mean, you know, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:55.920 the evolution, if you will, of different entities within education 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:01.360 and community and government in and what have you beginning 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.080 to know that there has to be a different way 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.040 to educate our children, a different way to bring our 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.280 young people along and help them be successful. That's that's happening. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:16.040 But it's low, it's a slug rid, but happening, Like 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:20.200 you said, a career day every single week. That's very 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.240 different because in the past it's just once a year 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.040 I put in your career day is not just them 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:31.360 talking about careers in courses and classes, to where it's 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:38.240 just creativity, it's music, it's arts, is cooking, and hands on, 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.360 ends on, and you just end that for for two 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.640 periods of the day. For the beginning of the day. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.200 You start your day off with something that you like 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.320 to do. You're not just going into a classroom and listen, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.720 and you're starting your day of doing an activity that 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.840 you've chosen that you want to be a part of, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.840 and you're learning, you're creating, and it's just dope, that's great, 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.480 it's great. It's great. So there's a lot of when 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.360 we were talking about youth, we're talking about violence, we're 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.880 talking about you know, getting ourselves organizing. There's a lot 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:15.760 of really really dangerous and serious things happening um where 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:20.080 I think we It's probably one of the reasons why 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.560 the evolution is such a slow drip, because it's like 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.240 you're moving forward and there are people who are pushing 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:32.120 to change the culture and to uh, you know really 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:38.800 sort of I really want to be intentional about my point. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.520 There are people who are really fighting to get the 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:49.000 government to come out of its old and and sort 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:55.400 of archaic ways of thinking about educating youth about dealing 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.800 with mental health and other issues. Right there, you you, 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.760 you know, you are one of those people that constantly 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:07.040 talks about how no one can just sit you down 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.560 for two hours and just talk to you. Want back 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:15.560 and forth about your issues. To help you with your needs. 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.439 You need people from a therapeutic perspective. Yes, you can 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.320 sit down and talk to them sometimes, but also that 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.160 they may be able to come into your world, see 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.280 what you're doing, work with you from a very hands 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.600 on perspective. Now, maybe the fact that we're now in 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.639 our forties we could sit still a little bit different. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.560 But certainly a young child will not be able to 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.160 learn the same way that other communities learned. We know 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.119 that and to be uh, you know, to receive therapeutic 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.280 services and other things in those ways. And so with 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.200 that being said, there are folks who are sort of 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.800 pushing to change the culture. But when you have such 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.680 traumatic events like what we see happening across this country 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.200 going on, it takes us back. So even if you 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:08.359 go forward, you go back because people get afraid, People 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:13.520 get you know, traumatized. It's a lot. You've got four 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:18.080 people killed here, just you know, in the last four 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.360 twenty four hours. Obviously we're taping this show, so when 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.359 people hear it, it will be a week old. And 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.040 that's a thing that it's a week old by the time, 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.679 you know, several days passes, we're like, well, that happened 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.280 a week ago. Buffalo shooting happened, you know now, I 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.399 don't know, probably fifteen sixteen days ago. It's not a 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.720 long time, but in media time, the cycle just keeps changing. 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:48.280 Four people shot in a medical center. Then you have 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:53.440 the police doing what police do, uh, shooting an unarmed 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.320 black woman who was suspected to be in a stolen car. 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:01.200 She was with a guy, allegedly the guy I ran uh, 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.199 and the woman when they told her to get on 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.399 the ground, try to explain that she was pregnant and 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.920 that she could not lay down, and the police shot 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.600 her multiple times. She wasn't in a pocket, she wasn't 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.400 None of the witnesses have said she grabbed for anything 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.639 or did anything that should have caused her to be 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:24.080 shot as a pregnant woman. But again, uh, police will 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.800 be police, and so that happened. And then you have 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:33.400 a situation where other governments are catching on quicker than us, 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.399 because in a place like Canada, they are banning or 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.080 at least there are new regulations that will ban the 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:46.480 sale of purchases for certain types of handguns, right um 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.119 or maybe all handguns. So people are like, yo, we're 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.080 seeing what's going on in America, and we're not gonna 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.879 sit by and allow our nation to be riddle with 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:02.560 the same types of watunate traumas. I don't know what 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.560 the hell they're doing in Washington, d C. We ultimately 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.880 have no choice but to to fight for and find 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:14.520 for ourselves. Actually, you know, and and and now I'm 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.360 hearing that there's going to be legislation passed in New 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.399 York City will be an opencare state. I mean New 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.280 York State. I apologize New York State. That's even worse 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:26.960 like when we when we look and see that gun 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.560 violence is up, and then we're gonna make it more 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.240 easy to access guns. I don't even understand how we 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.119 don't realize that's a recipe for disaster, you know, to 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.840 the reality of situation is everybody shouldn't have a gun, 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.639 you know, and that's what the problem is. Obviously, the 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.760 guns are getting into the hands of people who shouldn't 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.400 have guns. When you look at these mass shootings, these 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:52.919 aren't you know, cultable, you know culpable ready, you know 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:57.359 informed people it would have packed the background check and 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.720 should be able to have guns. So when we understand 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.600 that something is not working, why do we continue to 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:08.200 exacerbate the mistake. It doesn't really make sense to me. 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:10.680 You know, New York is on fire will gun violence. 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.280 People who don't are getting illegal So now you're gonna 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.760 make it a lot easier for somebody who shouldn't have 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.719 a going to get it. I just understand the logic. 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:26.040 Just don't. Yeah, we don't need people on the trains 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.600 in New York that are already it's suffering from like 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:32.760 all types of trauma. I don't even know what it's 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.000 called that's going on to go on the train. Who's 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:44.840 sick man? People fucked up people? Yeah, people, peoples by 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:50.800 a gun. People fucked up out here yet. And the 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:54.760 thing is, you we look at our police, who supposedly 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:59.199 are trained to deal with situations, and they say they 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.960 fear for their and they make mistakes and they shoot. 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:05.199 So you're gonna give guns to people where've got nothing 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:09.400 near with the police, got in hope that in situation 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:12.480 stuff as road rage when somebody cuts you off and 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:14.639 they get out and they got a gun named blowing 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.280 your head. You see. We literally seen sick people driving 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:22.280 on the highway and shoot that cars because they are arguing. 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:26.960 So yeah, but I mean your point is so valid, 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:30.120 my son, because when you think of the fact that 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:35.840 young kids sat in the classroom for over an hour, 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:42.520 some shot, some almost dying, others who I've been told 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:47.080 was shot a second time because there was so much 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:54.879 room for additional horror. Um you know, sack there for 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.000 all and out. And now, I mean, I don't even 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:04.200 know how you talk about kids babies who for one second, 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:08.200 if your baby is lost from you in a crowd 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:12.960 for one second, it can turn into a complete meltdown 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:18.200 and break down for a child. So imagine people bloody 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:22.480 uh you know, big boom, sounds of shots going off, 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:27.320 and there was no help. So these police officers who 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:30.600 stood they said at least nineteen officers were in the 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:36.960 hallway standing there. If they didn't do anything to deal 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:40.520 with the shooter, why are we now all of a 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:46.560 sudden so convinced that a resource officer it's gonna do something. 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:50.480 If that's the case, then fucking fire the police officers, 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:54.480 exactly if you're giving us all guns to tell us 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:57.960 protect ourselves, and what what is the police officers doing 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:01.359 that we can't do ourselves one hours in percent, I 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:06.240 don't know, nobody's explained that to me. So just thinking 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:12.040 about so much stuff that's happening. I don't want to 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:15.199 be a conspiracy theorist, as they say, I don't even 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:17.280 know if theorist is a word, but I don't want 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:22.560 to be a conspiracy theorist person. But I'm really just 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:27.919 trying to figure out because there's so much to process, 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:36.680 And the last few weeks, I've been like, I don't 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:39.040 even want to post anything on socials because I gotta 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:42.960 like think before I gotta like gather my thoughts and 0:24:43.040 --> 0:24:48.400 gather myself before I speak. But I've been noticing over 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:51.199 the last few weeks that while we're dealing with like 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:55.320 all this trauma in terms of like how what type 0:24:55.359 --> 0:25:01.280 of horrific incidents are happening, there's also mad had health challenges. 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:05.040 Like I'm trying to figure out if when you get 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:08.080 old allergies come on. I mean, I'm really I know 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:11.520 this is totally off topic. It's a real thing because 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:13.920 I never had no damn allergies to like, last I 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:16.320 didn't even know what no allergies was. Like, I would 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:19.159 sneeze a little bit. But now I feel like I 0:25:19.240 --> 0:25:22.280 got I can't breathe, I feel like my eyes is 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:26.159 always itching, I gotta something in my throat is like 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:28.560 cotton balls and my nose. It's like, Yo, this is 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:31.680 the worship I've ever felt. And it just started happening. 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:34.280 And I'm like, when did all this you just started happening. 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:40.000 The last two years I have been experiencing allergies. Last 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:45.360 year wasn't as bad. This year. I literally had several incidents, 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:48.919 like different periods where I could not breathe, my throat 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:53.240 was hurting, I was feeling exhausted. I almost felt like 0:25:53.240 --> 0:25:55.199 I had a flu, but I didn't because you know, 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:58.520 I get a COVID test very often, and you're not 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:03.080 the COVID. How about that you could have the flu? No, No, 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.000 no COVID tests that I get they test for the flu. Also, 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:11.680 That's why they flabbed me a little deeper because they 0:26:11.720 --> 0:26:15.000 go for the flu as well. You know, you should 0:26:15.080 --> 0:26:18.040 learn how to get you some of those good no 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:23.600 thinking me I do, but I feel like, wow, like 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:27.880 what what? I don't understand it. And people have been 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:31.960 saying like the environment is not what it should be. 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:36.720 So I'm thinking, like, is it is? Can allergies be 0:26:37.000 --> 0:26:41.760