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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
6:11:14
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3 min
Christopher Leon Johnson testifies to advocate for the restoration of $3 million in funding for Safe Horizon and calls for an additional $3.7 million allocation to sexual assault and domestic violence organizations. He criticizes the defunding of Safe Horizon and expresses concern about a nurse's sexual assault in Rikers Island.
- Johnson condemns the lack of response from corrections union leader Benny Biasco regarding the nurse's assault
- He suggests that the corrections union may be corrupt and potentially involved in orchestrating assaults
- Johnson emphasizes the need for fairness in addressing the concerns of both correction officers and other individuals in the system
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Hello, chair Aleah.
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Thanks for hosting this and thanks for saying this hosting this too.
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I know she's not here, but hope she's doing well.
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But I'm here to advocate for the d no.
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Not defunded.
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The restoration of funding for $3,000,000 back into Safe Horizon.
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I'm calling for restoration and more to keep on getting funding from the city council.
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That was wrong of how the speaker, the mayor defunded Safe Horizon.
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They do a lot of great work for the city, especially in the in the court system and the jail system.
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Now I'm calling on the city council to allocate $3,700,000 into various sexual any $3,700,000.
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This is from the to the speaker, Adrian Adams, three point seven million dollars into any sexual assault domestic violence assault organization that any nurse has wanna allocate that money to because she was sexually assaulted in Rikers, like, this like last year.
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I mean, that's sad.
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I know a lot of people don't like her, but no woman should be sexually assaulted.
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While at the same time, we just heard Benny Biasco crying for the past hour about what his officers been going through, but he have not said not one thing about a saint nurse being sexually assaulted in jail.
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He would say, oh, she just got slapped in the butt, but it didn't matter.
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Like, she still got sexually assaulted.
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She should have never been sexually assaulted.
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Yeah.
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Correction's been sexually assaulted in jail too, but she been assaulted too.
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Just like he wanna complain that how they matter all the time, they do matter.
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But at the same time, city nurse matters too.
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So Benny Biasco should make a statement saying that he condemned about his inmates because I could I have a big feeling that he sent that off to try to show to the city council like, oh, this is what we this is what the the council this is what the corrections officers go through.
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You guys don't know, so we're gonna I'm a fucking get I'm a get one of these guys to sexually assault one of your council members to show of what we go through.
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So until Betty Biasco, the council the the corrections union condemns Sandy Nurse condemns the situation that Sandy Nurse have been through.
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I have a feel big feel he set that over that with his members in the in the union because that union is corrupt, really corrupt.
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You know, a lot of to keep it real, nobody's gonna really give a shit about what these c go
Diana Ayala
6:13:42
Chris Chris yeah.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm with you.
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Language.
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These c o's go through.
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They won't care what these c o's go through.
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I care what they go through, to keep it real, you know, you guys go through a lot of things.
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Other people go through a lot of things.
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You gotta be you gotta quote you gotta be fair with them.
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You gotta be real fair until, like I said, you condemn the mister Garcia for sexual assault with city nurse and say, look, we stand with city nurse.
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She didn't have to go through that.
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No one's gonna care.
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Remember, she the chair of the she the chair of correct corrections committee.
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She the chair of this committee.
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I know you're here today.
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I know she's not here, but she the chair.
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She had the right to say what money goes to what.
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So
Diana Ayala
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I appreciate that.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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That's all I gotta say.
Diana Ayala
6:14:22
Thank you.
Christopher Leon Johnson
6:14:23
It's all my language, but