Banks calls special city council meeting on crime “Tackling Jackson’s crime crisis”
Banks calls special city council meeting on crime “Tackling Jackson’s crime crisis”
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With violent crime constantly climbing in the city of Jackson, Aaron Banks, president of the Jackson City Council, held a special council meeting in the form of a town hall at New Horizon International Church Tuesday night, with major emphasis on “Tackling Jackson’s Crime Crisis.” The meeting was live streamed on
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U.S. Congressman Bennie Thompson, as well as other government officials representing Hinds Count Sheriff’s Department, Hinds County Supervisors, Hinds County Attorney’s Office, Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Narcotics, Highway Patrol, U.S. Attorney’s Office and others convened with the mayor and city council members in an effort to tackle a growing crime problem in the city of Jackson.
Last February, as back-to-back winter storms buried the deep south in snow and ice, some residents in Jackson, Mississippi, found themselves facing an additional hardship. They had no water running water for weeks.
Ronnie Crudup, a bishop at New Horizon Church in the city, said he was without water for 18 days. This [winter storm] was one of the worst in the central part of Mississippi, we don t get a lot of cold weather, and so that made us very, very susceptible, Crudup told 60 Minutes+ correspondent Wesley Lowery. I had never experienced a point where I saw no water come out of the pipes.
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The organization is backing an option to expand health care access for Mississippians where 90% of funding would come from the federal government, and the remaining 10% required match would be funded by a self-tax paid by hospitals. They want the support for this plan from the state legislature. When you look at what happened when Medicaid was not expanded, the amount of hurt and pain, suffering, that occurred across Mississippi is not just a health issue that s a moral issue,
Bishop Ronnie Crudup, of New Horizon Church International,
said Wednesday, standing in the Capitol rotunda.
The timing is paramount as the pandemic has added an additional layer, leaving thousands of other Mississippians unemployed disproportionately affecting minorities and working poor. As a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill passed in Congress on Wednesday, and is headed to President Joe Biden to sign, Mississippians spearheading efforts of Medicaid expansion see this as an apt time to