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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
6:26:36
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Christopher Leon Johnson testifies to advocate for protections for delivery workers, specifically supporting Intro 992 and requesting funding for nonprofits to support this initiative. He urges Council Member Brannan to push for a resolution in honor of former State Senator Ivan Chu.
- Calls for $4 million to be allocated to two nonprofits
- Suggests implementing a hospital response system similar to the Cure Violence formula for assaulted delivery workers
- Emphasizes the need for protection of delivery workers, including making assaults against them a class E felony
Christopher Leon Johnson
6:26:36
What's up, council member Brannan?
6:26:37
Christopher Leon Johnson here.
6:26:39
Thank you, chair Brannan, chair Leah, and chair Hudson for being here.
6:26:45
I'm here to advocate and ask you, council member Brandon, since you are the biggest ally of former accounts of former state senator Ivan Chu to support and out and push for resolution to support intro, s nine nine two to protect the Laristas, by making sure that if they ever get assaulted, they get charged with a class e felony.
6:27:08
I think you should add a resolution to the city council to support that for her and to honor for in honor of her.
6:27:14
I know she's state senator no more, but I think should do that to honor her.
6:27:18
I am calling on, $4,000,000 allocated to two nonprofits in support of this bill, while this is going on.
6:27:29
First one is Locumena, and the second one is, lost, workers' justice project because they need to start going to other hospitals and respond to any respond to every call anytime that, these deliveries to start getting assaulted or even, shot or stabbed by in the streets in New York City.
6:27:49
I say Locumena because they they oversee Staten Island, New York, and they don't have no outreach in the other four boroughs.
6:27:57
They need to start doing, like, hospital responding.
6:28:01
I know we have a cure violence, formula in the city council that's overseen by council member Aliyah Stevens.
6:28:11
So at the same time, while we instead of this this out worry about people in the neighborhood getting shot all the time, we need to stop worrying about the Laristas getting shot all the time too and getting assaulted.
6:28:23
They need protections too.
6:28:26
These nonprofits told them I called.
6:28:29
I said they need the money to start doing this in the hospitals.
6:28:32
They should get the get the formula and the plan from the Cure Violence Organization such as LifeCamp Inc and Man Up Incorporated and start doing the same thing anytime a deliveries to get assaulted in the street in New York.
6:28:47
So, councilman Brannon, I know you're a big ally of Ivan Chu.
6:28:51
You should be pushing this more in the city council to give the deliveries the protections they need.
6:28:57
Thank you.
6:28:58
Thank you.