REMARKS
Council Member Brooks-Powers provides closing remarks on accountability and next steps
4:33:06
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Council Member Selvena N. Brooks-Powers concludes the discussion by addressing the legality of the proposed bill and emphasizing the need for comprehensive solutions that go beyond identification to ensure accountability for e-vehicle incidents.
- Brooks-Powers clarifies that the committee's counsel also looked into the bill's legality
- She highlights the need for solutions that address accountability after identification
- The council member draws parallels with automobile accidents and the challenges in ensuring justice
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
4:33:06
Thank you.
4:33:07
Just to clarify, the counsel for this committee also looked into this bill and that is where my information and, knowledge of it comes from.
4:33:17
But just to ask a a follow-up question because, where council member Holden is correct is we wanna see what solutions exist.
4:33:26
Right?
4:33:26
And so I'm hearing accountability also.
4:33:30
And what this bill, from what I understand, presents is to be able to identify, but I think that it fails to go further in terms of once you've identified, what then happens?
4:33:43
And, that's a missing component that I'm seeing and I'm hearing, because I hear the lack of accountability there have been people who have stayed at the site and then been released, which in certain automobile accidents quite honestly happened to, I think about, Divina who was a 10 year old who was hit by a car in my district.
4:34:05
They had apprehended the person who hit her with the vehicle and that person unfortunately was released.
4:34:11
I mean there was a a process that went through more so than what we see with the scooters and the e bikes but I think we have to think about the full picture of this, as well.
4:34:22
But thank you for your testimony.
4:34:26
The next panel we will call up.
4:34:28
Thank you.
4:34:30
Michael Phillips, Sandy Reburn, Artemio Cardona, Maria Ferrari, Susan Simon, p y Mahone, Ricardo Pacie Paciello.
4:36:03
Sir, we'll start with you.
4:36:04
Go ahead.
