REMARKS
Council Member Mercedes Narcisse Explains Her Vote to Override the Mayor's Vetoes
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Council Member Mercedes Narcisse, invoking her experiences as a mother and a registered nurse, elaborates on the detrimental impacts of solitary confinement. She articulates the inhumanity of the practice and its adverse effects on individuals' ability to reintegrate into society, emphasizing the need for reform and more humane treatment of incarcerated individuals.
Speaker 2
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Narcisse.
Speaker 34
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Permission to explain my vote?
Speaker 1
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Permission granted.
Speaker 34
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I'm so happy to be here with all my colleagues.
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Difficult time, difficult moment for us.
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When you come to solitary confinement Yeah.
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This for a mother of 4.
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And being a registered nurse and work in reentry program.
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Listening to your young the young folks in our community suffering in my career language that I'm hearing all the people talking.
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Especially when the abscess is on your own butt, you can press on it.
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But if your family is suffering dealing with the what we're seeing in solitary confinement when you come out,
Speaker 28
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It's difficult.
Speaker 34
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So what I'm saying is just like you cannot function when you come back to your community.
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It's hard.
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So for those that said, it's not is supposed to protect the officer.
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Even the correctional officer said it themselves.
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That's a human being.
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This is inhuman around the world.
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We should take information in processes, how the result come out, when you rehabilitate folks, when they go to jail, they're not supposed to come out, not able to function.
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So I will immense respect for the offices in my community.
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When that bill come and I'm so happy that we had to process it because all the lies are come 2 months.
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See, 2 back, I have 2 Caucasian participants.
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No.
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That's not true at all.
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Because if you take time, you're a great officer, you take the oath to serve, to respect, to protect.
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So the little step that you have to take, now we're in technology's era.
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So all the pressing, it's not taking extra.
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You go back to your to your present and you're able to process that.
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So for that, I'm saying, Mersi Ampil, thank you every very much by everyone.
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And last week, madam's week, Merci Ampil, Merci Jamani, Dermani, you understand our culture, but let's see our views.
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So now I'm gonna put a hi.
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For all those folks that suffering.
Speaker 11
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Thank thank you.
Speaker 1
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