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Council Member Paladino's opening remarks on inmate treatment
3:03:19
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Council Member Vickie Paladino opens the session with critical remarks about prioritizing inmate treatment over veterans' care. She expresses frustration with the focus on providing 'farm to table' food for inmates while neglecting veterans' needs.
- Paladino sarcastically comments on feeding inmates 'farm to table' food
- She mentions a specific case of a subway attacker being held at Rikers
- The council member's remarks are met with some pushback from other members
Vickie Paladino
3:03:19
Good afternoon and thank you for joining us this afternoon.
3:03:24
I'll just say this in quickly because I I don't wanna get just wish our veterans were fed farm to table food.
3:03:32
I think the guy who set the woman on fire on the subway is at Rikers right now.
3:03:37
He's got we're gonna worry about farm to table food and making sure they get fed prod.
3:03:42
This is ridiculous.
3:03:43
But now let me get on to what I wanna get on to.
3:03:46
What's that?
3:03:47
I am being nice.
3:03:50
Farm to table for our veterans would be really, really nice.
3:03:53
But we're not talking about that.
3:03:55
Let me let me stay on let me stay on
Althea Stevens
3:03:58
something.
3:03:58
Okay.
3:03:59
We're gonna level set.
3:04:00
Please no talking and the changes.
Vickie Paladino
3:04:01
That's absurd.
3:04:03
So
Althea Stevens
3:04:03
And let's also have the quorum and we we could all advocate for farm to table for everyone.
3:04:08
That should be the goal.
3:04:09
So let's just level That's
Vickie Paladino
3:04:11
good out there.