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Which is how we grow public safety. keep people safe by addressing the crisis of mental health in this country. i will give you one example right now, justin wallace, a 10-year-old boy, shot and killed on the far rockaways. one of the most effective tools weve had at preventing a gun being shot in the first place is community based violence interruption. there were violent interrupters in the community saying they didnt have enough staff, that they need social workers and trauma and mental healt...

>> absolutely. i am not, nor have i ever said in this race that i would. and, frankly, part of why it was so far out of left field is that its simply not a conversation that any candidate, any progressive candidate has even raised. i wanted to focus my one minute on the actual conversation, which is how we grow public safety. keep people safe by addressing the crisis of mental health in this country. one example right now, justin wallace, 10-year-old boy, shot and killed on the rockaways. one of...

Contract that the state will protect us and serve us. so when police kill us, we expect due process. black people go to jail for killing black people all the time. theres no shortage of black people in jail for killing black people. that doesnt happen with law enforcement. we need a different response. the way to respond isnt to march. who would you march on? you have violence interruption. which is what we see in chicago. you have conflict resolution, but also you need jobs, after school progra...