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at a 9-year-old chicago girl shot in the head riding in the back of this car. she was caught in the cross fire of a gang shooting last month. so we are asking why this is happening and how this can be stopped. >> our panel today includes chicago alderman raymond lopez. he has been very outspoken about the origins of gang violence in his community and says that mayor lightfoot fails to call it out. pete keller is a former chicago gang member himself who now helps ex-offenders turn their lives around to his organization, "united legion, one nation." and ted williams is a former police detective and a fox news contributor. great to have you with us. one of the things that strikes me in covering these stories is the way it's often covered is it's about the guns, the rampant amount of guns on the streets, but i want to peel that back and asked the question about what is causing it. what are the underlying disputes
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organizations are not what we call in the trenches. we're yulon, united legion, one nation, we're in the heart of chicago. we're here for the community and we actually deal with these gang bangers. we deal with the kids. we get them off the street. there was a statement by superintendent brown saying chicago crime has gone down since last year. it's not true at all. i challenge him to a boxing match. we're telling the kids to put down the guns. let's show the kids we can take another route, a three-round boxing match. maybe the stabbings and some of the armed robberies have gone down but not the killings. not the murder. so we have to stop telling these people false statistics. let's get the babies off the street and show them that we give a damn about these children. >> trace: martha maccallum had a conversation with teo hartman
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people who are doing the most productive work in black communities across this great nation are never the ones on TV complaining about how systemically racist the United States of America is. Rather they are the folk of all races who see a problem and are willing to roll up their sleeves and put that work in to show the opportunities offered by this country. Like Scott Presler and the hundreds of volunteers he amassed to assist in cleaning up the streets of Baltimore – it wasn’t Kweisi Mfume, Elijah Cummings or Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake. Then there is Pete Keller of ULON (United Legion, One Nation) in Chicago who is striving to offering help and change the lives for ex-offenders and prevent youth from becoming involved with gangs – not Lori Lightfoot or Kim Foxx. Not to be forgotten is Jason Mercado, who through his baking business, Sweet Mission, trains and employs homeless people who need a new start on life in California. This is work not done by Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Watters, George Gascón or London Breed.
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Community activist Pete Keller said on Thursday that his dream, which has been in the making for nearly 20 years, has finally come true with the opening of his ULON Resource Center.
"Now we're giving the kids an outlet, somewhere to go," Keller said. "ULON Resource Center is going to be a safe haven, a safe haven for the community of Chicago."
Keller introduced ULON - or United Legion, One Nation, which was officially founded in 2015 - to the Avalon Park neighborhood. After collecting donations, Keller was able to move the organization out of his home and to East 87th Street.
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