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Through the use of other social media. We did a case, again a hate crimes case involving an individual who called himself devilfish who over the internet was sending Death Threats to the heads of the National Council of irasa to other organizations that had the audacity to october on behalf of immigrants. And we prosecuted him. You described one just now, that is not an isolated incident. You know that old addage, sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me, i categorically ...

Reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at t...

Work and i am so impressed at the partnerships that have been out here. Im so impressed that we recognize that bullying is no longer simply the bullying of your fists but its the bullying that can come through the use of twitter, through the use of other social media. We did a case, again a hate crimes case involving an individual who called himself devilfish who over the internet was sending Death Threats to the heads of the National Council of irasa to other organizations that had the audacity...

Incident. You know that old addage, sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me, i categorically reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will conti...

This to ensure that we have some resources for innovative programs that are happening across the country for those local programs that are really changing the way their schools function and their communities see their schools and promoting those and scaling them up. Very quickly because i know we want to move on, the attorney general launched a defending childhood initiative, i know theres a lot of philanthropy in the room, we want to work in partnership to find those innovative programs. There ...

Encourage young people not to stand by in silence. So much of this, if you are not the perpetrator, if you are the victim but you see it, empowering young people to do something about it when they spot it. Lastly, the partners recently announced a stop bullying video challenge where we are bringing together psas that highlight whats happening by young people and want to give awards and celebrate that. And, as i mentioned earlier, the grants, the money, the department of education has issued 11 g...

Giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we ...

Things in communities across this country. So we have to get to work and we are, in fact, getting to work and i am so impressed at the partnerships that have been out here. Im so impressed that we recognize that bullying is no longer simply the bullying of your fists but its the bullying that can come through the use of twitter, through the use of other social media. We did a case, again a hate crimes case involving an individual who called himself devilfish who over the internet was sending Dea...

Reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at t...

Restoretive justice programs, the superintendent mentioned those. Those have shown real potential for doing good things in terms of preventing recidivism in the bullying context. A grant to boston for statewide bullying intervention, so theres a number of different places, portland, maine and elsewhere. If you have ideas you should never hesitate to call us. Were not a grant making arm in our division but we have the auspices of the department of justice so if its not mean ill make sure to funne...