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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
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130 sec
Christopher Leon Johnson testifies in support of Intro 566, but expresses concerns about potential negative influences on children in schools. He suggests banning drill rappers, certain music, and individuals with criminal records from school programs.
- Advocates for pushing coding education alongside sports in schools
- Warns against involving Cure Violence nonprofits in these initiatives
- Proposes banning individuals with gang-related tattoos from participating in school programs
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Yeah.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
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I'm the answer to support the Kevin Riley's bill at intro five six six, but we need to make sure that we need to ban all drill rappers from these schools.
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We need to bill any music that has a drill beat.
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We need to ban any person that's a convicted felon to be around these kids.
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At the same time, while we push it for sports, we need to push for coding too.
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Kevin Riley, he introduced a bill to push for coding inside all New York City schools, especially in bills like this.
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Like I said, we need to ban all Cure Violence nonprofits from being involved with this type of initiative because I have a big feeling that they're gonna allow these like, I saw Farrah Lewis there, she's connected to elite learners.
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Elite Earns Inc.
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They get a lot of money from the city council crew of Farrah Lewis.
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I have a big feeling that she's gonna allow organizations like that, organizations to come in and and run the whole show.
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We need to introduce the Bills City Council to ban all cure violence or violent interrupted organizations from being involved with this type of initiative because once that happens, you have a few of these people that are part of that not those nonprofits like LifeCamp and Man Up Inc and all these nonprofits that Chris Bank has, big ties to.
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They're gonna really influence these kids.
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And what's gonna happen is gonna be counterproductive to what's gonna be accomplished, what you guys spoke out as outside that, outside that rally tape, mister Shaikar.
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And like I said, we need to ban all, bad influences from these kids.
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Like I said, no drill rappers, no no rap nobody rapping over drill beats, no gangster rap, no felons.
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We need to make sure that nobody wear I don't have tattoos, but if they have tattoos, make sure you need a ban.
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Make sure nobody has tattoos.
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No gang tattoos not allowed to be shown in these schools.
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Like I said, once that happens, maybe this stuff will stop.
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But if you just let the stuff go blanket and just allow all the bad elements, like, allow like, Bobby Shmurda and all these little gangster rappers or convicted felon, shooting another black man, shooting each other back and forth with no apparent reason, like like Joe Rap, like this they said city council of, like, Sandy Nurse to allow the rap group four zero one forty one to to post an event in her district, and she sponsored
Shekar Krishnan
2:03:07
all government's time.
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Mister Johnson.
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Your time is up.
Christopher Leon Johnson
2:03:09
Nothing's gonna be done.
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We So thank you thank you so much, and enjoy your day.
Shekar Krishnan
2:03:13
We appreciate your testimony.