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Ocasiocortez. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage congressman Bernie Sanders. [applause] thank you. Hello, new york. I am so pleased to be with you all. An extraordinary man that we all support, congressman Bernie Sanders. I see people from every single town. Yorkelting pot we call new. Hereof our ancestors came to america to find a better life. Escapeme from ireland to famine and poverty. Bernies family came to escape antisemitism and poverty. Create a things help better life for future generations here in america, and they could. Years, that last 40 promise has been eroded, and...

Indigenous peoples lived here and go to the end of the 20th century. We are standing in our exhibit the first peoples. It talks about the Indigenous People who lived in michigan for thousands of years before the arrival of europeans. It is one we just recently renovated. The first is this mural that is painted. Of thes the story anishinaabe people through four seasons. Is of the things it tells the advanced society they had before europeans arrived. It was just a little different than the western civilization. They chose to live off of the land and not try to control the land. They engaged, sp...

Their own sidewalks, and be gunned down. And thats what happened to this young child. And so our hearts and our thoughts and our prayers are with his family and his friends. I want to especially recognize united players. He was a very active member of united players in soma and but beyond that, we recommit to make sure that young people in our city are not in danger, to address gun violence and the prevalence of guns on our streets, and to remember him and what he stood for in his life that was cut far too short. President yee thank you, supervisors, for your comments. So i guess next up in ro...

Population. [inaudible] president yee thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. President yee next speaker. Are we done with speakers, sir . Excuse me. Are you speaking, sir . Well in light and in part of the reasoned alleged occurrence and unfortunate incidents at laguna honda hospital and legislation to help seniors remain in their own homes and help mentally ill residents in group homes where theres the benefit of a ready make social environment and peer group, i applaud you. Some of you know i provided security on a psychiatric ward for 30 days a couple of decades ago. One evening, a lon...

And pain and trauma around him and was trying to do something about it, was a leader among his peers, many of whom were at the memorial and who are devastated, and he had incredible potential. I think what his family told us and what his friends told us was that he was already a peacemaker and that they want us as a city to continue his work and continue his legacy. And the most tragic thing about this sort of violence is that we know that its preventible, and that our city has a responsibility to make sure dont have to be afraid to walk out on their own streets, on their own sidewalks, and be...