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Craig Lewis shares his personal experience with the gang database's impact
3:23:13
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Craig Lewis, a member of the public and directly impacted individual from The Bronx 120 case, shares his personal experience with the gang database and its negative impact on his life and education.
- Lewis describes how he was included in a gang raid despite being a full-time student
- He highlights how the database affected his educational and career plans
- Lewis argues for proper police investigations instead of relying on the database
Craig Lewis
3:23:13
The reason I'm here to speak is because I'm one of the from as you can see directly impacted individual, from The Bronx 120 and I could state the facts that 60 people out of the one twenty weren't even in a game and nine times out of 10, those people were on that database.
3:23:34
Like, I sat there with everyone.
3:23:36
I was the only one away at school, a full time student.
3:23:40
I was about to get my master's to come back to Gun Hill Road and develop a law firm.
3:23:45
All of that was stopped.
3:23:47
If a database for me could do that, I'm sure out of the 30 people that's been getting raided, there's probably five that didn't do anything without the money to pay for a lawyer to even get their voice heard.
3:24:03
They're not blessed enough to have people like this advocate or even educated enough to articulate they selves to you.
3:24:10
They didn't make it that far.
3:24:12
My alternative would be for cops to just do their job.
3:24:17
Facebook and Instagram, they're not gonna get you down.
3:24:21
You might hear about what happened, but do your investigations.
3:24:24
For if you did your investigations, I wouldn't have went through what I went through, and I wouldn't be in all these communities advocating against a gang database.