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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
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Christopher Leon Johnson testifies at the preliminary budget hearing, focusing on several issues including support for delivery workers, immigration policies, and the need for the city council to hold the mayor accountable. He calls for support of legislation to protect delivery workers and criticizes the lack of opposition to Trump's immigration policies.
- Advocates for support of Intro 992-A, which would make assaulting delivery workers a class E felony
- Mentions $4 million allocation to two nonprofits supporting worker rights: Little Camena and Worker Justice Project
- Criticizes the lack of criticism towards Trump's immigration policies from city officials, particularly the immigration commissioner
Christopher Leon Johnson
3:57:22
Yeah.
3:57:22
Hello.
3:57:23
My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
3:57:25
Thank you, chair Williams, for hosting this hearing today.
3:57:27
Preliminary hearing, I'm, like, from third like, this is my third time saying it.
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I know it's, a broken record, but I want since this about human rights with the Larissa's getting racially profiled by the NYPD, I am calling on you to support Brandt chair Villas and chair Brannon.
3:57:49
I know you're a chair of this committee for supporting the Larissa's with intro, and state senate, with Ivan Chu, former state senator Ivan Chu s nine nine two four a that will make it a class e felony for anybody to assault the barista.
3:58:05
I know that this is about human rights.
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When you assault somebody, that's part of human rights.
3:58:11
Being against human rights, nobody had the right to be assaulted by anybody, especially when they're delivering food to people and delivering pills.
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Let's make that clear.
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Like I said before yesterday, that $4,000,000 will be allocated to two nonprofits, Little Camena that's in Staten Island, and the Worker Justice Project that's based in Brooklyn.
3:58:32
You know, that's and and one more thing I have to say is that, you know, the city council needs to start really checking the mayor, Eric Adams, and start calling out the immigration commissioner.
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I know you're the human rights commissioner.
3:58:52
You should invite out the human rights commit human the immigration commissioner or missus mister Manny Castro and called him out as a chair for him not saying anything about why Adams why he why he he couldn't criticize Trump for his immigration policies.
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Because I understand there's a crime problem in the city Of New York, but just because a a certain small percentage of people committing all the crimes that are migrants doesn't mean that all migrants are bad.
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You know?
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But, I mean, you should have some you should have got the immigration commissioner to come and speak on me, like, why he didn't bash why he can't bash Trump.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So, basically, that's all I gotta say, and thank you.