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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson on Gun Violence Prevention and E-bike Crisis
6:12:13
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129 sec
Christopher Leon Johnson testifies before the New York City Council committees, advocating for recognition of the New York State gun violence prevention task force office and funding for New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. He also calls for addressing the e-bike crisis as a public health issue.
- Urges the appointment of Rebecca Fisher as gun violence prevention czar, replacing AT Mitchell
- Requests a meeting between NYC EBSA and Worker Justice Project to address the e-bike crisis
- Emphasizes the need for bipartisan cooperation on public health issues like the e-bike crisis
Christopher Leon Johnson
6:12:13
Ready?
6:12:15
Yeah.
6:12:15
Hello, chairs Brannen, chairs Shulman, and chair, Linda Lee.
6:12:20
My name is Christopher Leon Johnson, and I am calling on this, both of these, committees to, really recognize the, New York State gun gun violence prevention task force office that was opened just like with the budget, with the governor's budget.
6:12:36
Not only that, I am calling on the city council to recognize the New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, a nonprofit that's ran by Rebecca Fisher as a class schedule c nonprofit and her nonprofit should be able get funded through the city council budget because they do a lot of great work in mitigating gun violence in the City Of New York.
6:12:56
And not only that, I'm calling on whoever the next mayor is in New York City to appoint her as the gun violence of Benjamin Czar and to replace and to fire, AT Mitchell because AT Mitchell has done nothing as the gun violence of Benjamin Czar under the tenure Eric Adams and he needs to be removed from that, from that committee.
6:13:15
While we're here, I know we have one minute left, one more thing to say is that the city council need to recognize this EVIC situation as a public health crisis.
6:13:24
At the same time, they need to have a real full meeting with both the New York City EBSA and the Worker Justice Project to come with a real solution together of how we're gonna fix this e bike crisis in the City Of New York because there's lot of people that's getting hurt even the point of getting killed because of this e bike crisis.
6:13:43
At the same time, There's a big division that's going on between the Worker Justice Project and New York City EBSA, and I'm calling on those two organizations to come together and find a solution to end this situation with the ebike crisis in the City Of New York.
6:13:59
This shouldn't be about republican or Democrat or moderate or progressive.
6:14:04
A public health crisis like Ebike crisis should never be in that to know should never be in that situation.
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So thank you.
6:14:11
Like I said before, make give some give some funding to New York against gun violence.
6:14:17
Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
Lynn Schulman
6:14:19
Chris, it's always a pleasure.
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Have a great weekend.
Christopher Leon Johnson
6:14:21
Thank you.
6:14:21
Thank you.