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From YouTube: Mothers for Justice and Equality Conference
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Mayor Walsh offers remarks at a Mothers for Justice and Equality conference held at Wheelock College in Brookline.
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So
and
that's
the
kind
of
encouragement
that
all
of
us
is
wrong,
you
know
I'm
excited
because
I'm,
not
the
only
visionary
I
am
not
the
only
person
in
this
world
that
has
experienced
a
loss.
I
am
NOT
the
only
person
that
has
been
felt
into
their
destiny.
There
are
so
many
women
in
this
room
who
share
the
same
story
as
I
shape,
and
they
have
decided
to
turn
that
they.
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That
they
do
not
gonna
get
lost
in
their
circumstances
particular
circumstances
and
create
new
friends,
create
strategies.
Great
legacies,
be
the
example
of
what
true
courage
really
means.
So
I
would
like
to
take
a
moment
every
single
woman
every
single
day,
every
single
person
in
this
room,
who
has
the
courage
to
stand
for
justice
when
I
touch
her
our
souls.
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Know
God
stood
by
his
promise,
thank
you,
lord,
and,
and
so,
but
there
were
others.
There
were
other
people
who,
once
again,
you
know,
believed
in
my
crazy
vision
that
I
was
going
to
create
this
movement
who's
going
to
transform
the
mines,
the
souls,
the
hearts
of
everybody,
and
they
came,
you
know
I
called
they
showed
up,
and
so
I
just
want
to
recognize
our
Board
Chair
Mia
Alvarado.
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And
you
know,
I
cannot
have
to
name
names
because
I
might
forget
somebody
so
I'm
a
little
bit
smarter
to
say
you
know
just
thank
you
to
all
of
you
all
of
em
Jes
founding
members.
Thank
you
for
believing
thank
you
for
showing
up.
Thank
you
for
doing
what
you
do
best
right,
helping
other
people.
Thank
you.
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My
staff,
because
every
good
leader
is
only
as
good
as
the
people
who
decide
to
serve
with
you
and
so
I
want
to
thank
team
MJ
e,
each
and
every
one
of
them
for
their
commitment.
For
tolerating
my
you
know
my
life
fears
and
anxieties
and
in
really
working
hard
to
bring
this
conference
to
what
it
is.
So
I
want
to
thank
the
team,
the
staff
every
one
of
them
give
them
a
round
of
applause.
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And
I
want
to
thank
our
sponsors.
I
want
to
thank
we
law
college
for
hosting
us
and
those
that
were
everywhere
at
the
opening
reception
met,
dr.
david
char,
the
president
of
Wheelock
College
last.
He
said
a
few
words
and
we
just
want
to
thank
them
for
this
wonderful
space
and
once
again
hosting
us
here.
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Resource
Institute
the
Boston
foundation,
a
muggle
day
fund,
and
so
many
more
so
thank
you
for
your
contributions
to
this
wonderful
conference.
So
before
I
share
a
couple
of
reflections
with
you,
I
want
to
share
a
video,
a
short
video
that
really
kind
of
tells
you
about.
Who
is
mothers
with
definitely
quality?
What
do
they
do
every
single
day
and
why
is
it
important
for
them
to
bring
so
many
women
from
around
the
country
together.
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H
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I've,
been
here
has
been
a
very
great
experience,
meeting
women
of
faith
working
through
the
process
with
various
backgrounds
everyone's
getting
along
just
learning
and
striving
for
excellence.
Everybody
wants
to
go
someplace
where
they
haven't
been
before,
and
it's
really
nice
and
power
one
another.
While.
I
Problem
of
violence
in
our
city
is
one
that
continues
to
be
a
grave
concern
for
all
of
us.
All
of
us
who
live
in
Boston
and
around
the
country.
Mothers
for
justice
and
equality
is
the
most
important
organizations
functioning
in
the
city
of
Boston
right
now
around
these
issues,
and
really
it's
for
the
same
reasons
that
I
talked
about
before
that
family
members
who
have
experienced
these
terrific
horrific
losses
once
they've
had
a
chance
to
get
through.
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Order
to
do
this,
it
has
to
start
with
the
people
in
communities.
The
people
in
communities
are
the
ones
who
have
to
be
agents
for
the
change
have
to
organize
mobilize
and
push
agendas
forward.
Today's
conference
is
a
perfect
example.
If
people
haven't
come
from
all
over
the
country
decree
to
try
to
think
about
how
to
craft
solutions
that
reflect
the
real
needs
and
interests
of
people
living
in
our
communities
rather
than
a
top-down
approach,.
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F
I
was
really
having
a
hard
week
emotionally
and
to
be
able
to
come
to
the
class
and
get
the
support.
And
although
not
everyone
in
the
class,
has
the
same
loss
but
to
be
able
to
get
a
support
and
not
have
my
my
issues
or
emotions
pushed
aside.
But
to
really
have
the
opportunity
to
talk
about
it.
Even
in
the
midst
of
class,
not
that
that
took
up
the
whole
class.
But
we
were
able
to
really
come
together
and
I
believe
that
we
were
able
to
minister
to
one
another.
During.
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L
M
O
J
Away
I
can't
say
enough
about
how
much
it
does
for
us
as
an
example
to
be
able
to
put
out
on
a
national
level
that
an
organization
like
mothers
for
justice
and
equality,
which
grew
out
of
the
real-life
experiences
of
people
in
Boston,
can
become
a
model
for
helping
us
solve
and
address
the
questions
of
violence
across
the
country.
Without.
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So
I
thought
it
was
very
important
for
you
to
know
who
we
are
and
why
we
do
the
work
that
we
do
and-
and
we
couldn't
think
of
a
better
way
but
to
have
you
here
from
the
partners
from
the
mothers
from
the
individuals
who
we
work
with
every
day.
And
not
just
do
we
give
to
the
individuals
that
you
saw.
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They
give
to
us
right.
We
all
know
women
in
this
room
and
men
in
this
room
who
are
working.
You
know
in
these
support
circles
that
we
don't
just
give
of
ourselves,
but
the
people
who
we
are
working
with
give
to
us
and
I'm
going
to
introduce
our
mayor
to
you,
the
mayor
of
Boston,
a
great
man
who
has
been
very
supportive
of
the
work
that
we
have
been
doing
before.
I
do
that.
I
just
want
to
share.
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You
and-
and
these
are
books
that
we
have
developed
to
help
us
with
our
work.
One
is
called
and
I
heard
my
sisters
and
our
welcoming
reception
last
night
talked
about
us,
Big
Sisters
and
how
we
support
one
another
and
I
think
this
book
is
a
reflection
of
that
and
also
reflections
to
my
sisters,
which
are
reflections
of
gone
through
our
tiny.
This
is
a
reflection
that
I
like,
and
you
can
see
right
here,
my
sister
Charlotte
individuo,
and
it
says
some
days
other
days
some
days.
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I
feel
the
world
belongs
to
me,
and
the
sky
is
alone.
I
find
myself
singing
songs
of
hope
and
victory.
I
find
myself
glowing
in
front
of
strangers.
I
find
myself
believing
then
I
am
beautiful
and
loved
by
someone.
Special
I
am
on
stop
stop
in
my
mind,
I
feel
the
warmth
of
the
sun
shining
on
my
face.
I
find.
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Feel
like
a
soft
touch
that
across
again
presses
against
my
body.
I
feel
the
total
peace
as
if
I'm
floating
above
the
clouds,
and
no
one
can
see
me
or
feel
me.
It's
just
near
the
universe
and
me
with
no
such
thing
as
time.
It's
endless
there's
no
beginning,
and
there
was
no
end
to
the
love
peace
and
tranquility.
I
am
feeling
is
my
creator
and
me
together
the
last
suddenly
I'm
awaking
to
allow
it
sounds
like
sirens
moving
toward
me.
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D
A
I
felt
on
my
faith
that
press
my
body
have
turned
into
store
strong,
stormy
winds
that
are
whipping
against
my
skin.
My
gloves,
no
more,
it's
been
replaced
with
complete
heart.
My
heart
is
broken
again
and
I
am
yearning
for
my
some
days
to
return
and
my
other
go
away.
They
are
becoming
too
much
for
me
to
bear
my
heart
body
and
soul
desires
more.
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So
I
would
like
to
introduce
our
mayor
mayor
marty,
walsh,
a
longtime
champion
of
working
people
and
a
proud
product
of
the
city
of
boston
was
sworn
in.
As
the
city's
54th
mayor
on
january,
6
2014
administration
has
been
hailed
by
the
White
House
for
expanding
young
peoples,
opportunities
and
breaking
new
ground
in
crime
prevention,
police
and
police
Community
Relations
born
and
raised
in
the
neighborhood
of
Dorchester.
My
own
town.
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P
What
keeps
you
up
at
night
as
men
and,
as
you
know,
you
know
being
near
Boston.
This
is
probably
a
lot
of
things.
I
would
keep
me
up
at
night,
but
would
keep.
What
keeps
me
up
at
night
is.
Is
the
losses
that
the
mothers
in
this
room
of
experienced
the
loss
is
go
back
before
2014,
but
when
I
get
a
phone
call,
I
talked
to
Commissioner
Evans
every
day
when
he's
not
around
tar,
the
chief
Holy
Cross
and
so
will
call
in
the
morn
in
the
recap.
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I
know
it's
not
good
and
the
conversation
which
starts
out
with
he'll
tell
me
black
male
shot
either
either
to
see
so
awesome
doesn't
look
good
and
then
he'll
tell
me
the
age
and
he'll
say
15,
17,
24,
occasionally
you'll
say
40
41,
not
that
often
it's
usually
that
range
between
15
to
24,
year,
old
and
I-
think
about
what
we
do
as
a
city
to
reduce
those
those
homicides
and
a
lot
of
work
has
been
done
so
I
want
to.
First
of
all,
thank
all
of
you
for
your
work.
P
I
know
that
sometimes
it's
frustration
with
the
city
of
government
I
get
that
sometimes
it's
frustration
with
the
police
and
in
community
I
get
that.
But
I
want
to.
Thank
you
for
your
work,
because
this
conference
is
the
second
annual
conference
and
the
conversations
are
very,
very
important
to
have
some
want
to.
Thank
you.
I
want
to
give
a
shout
out
to
to
somebody
who
I
worked
with
house
representatives
back
in
mine,
elected
1997.
She
was
there.
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I
performing
shall
go
Ritchie,
who
represents
the
purpose
of
the
next
district
next
to
me
in
Dorchester
and
I
want
to
thank
her
for
continued
in
her
work
throughout
her
entire
career
and
she's
done
a
lot
of
great
things.
So
I
want
to
thank
Charlotte
for
a
friendship,
but
also
which
he's
done
in
this
city
over
the
last
two
or
three
decades.
Thank
you
shall.
P
I
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
steps
that
were
taken
in
the
city
to
try
and
do
some
good
things.
Our
Office
of
Public
Safety,
the
anymore,
earn
the
executive
directors
here
and
a
lot
of
his
office
here
with
us.
It's
continuing
to
also
explore
the
best
ways
we
can
support
survivors
outside.
Would
you
let
every
single
day?
P
Not
only
are
we
doing
that
to
help
support
survivors
on
the
side,
the
work
that
they
were
actually
doing
really
is
to
prevent
homicides
from
happening
altogether
working
with
anyone
and
everyone
across
the
city
of
austin
to
reduce
the
violence
that
we
have
in
our
city.
Our
goal
is
to
create
a
system
where
every
family
certainly
has
the
opportunity
to
see
the
same
level
of
contact
here
and
follow
up
so
we're
looking
at.
How
do
we
deliver
better,
better,
better
system
for
survivors?
P
Most
of
the
survival
system.
That's
in
place
is
due
to
the
mothers
in
this
room
and
the
father's
in
this
room
way
it
had
a
horrible
tragedy.
Your
own
family
you've
turned
that
around
you.
Use
that
strength
to
turn
that
around
to
a
positive
outcome,
fun
another
family.
So
we're
trying
to
work
with
you,
we
want
to
make
sure
that
there's
no
difference
of
who
the
person
is,
that
contacts
our
office
or
who
the
victim
was
I,
had
a
conversation
yesterday
with
tina
cheri
we're
talking
about
very
violent
talking
about
the
system.
P
That's
in
place
today
that
if
a
young
person
gets
killed
and
there's
alleged
involvement
somewhere,
the
family
are
the
one
suffering.
So
we
need
to
make
sure
we
have
a
better
system,
that's
fair
across
the
board,
because
the
family
are
the
ones
who
were
here.
They
have
to
have
to
deal
with
the
tragic
loss
of
their
loved
one,
and
also
the
financial
burdens
of
unexpectedly
have
the
very
dishonest.
P
Last
last
last
month
we
opened
the
first
ever
survivors
family
room
at
the
bosses
sent
a
few.
The
families
tobin
center
in
Mission,
Hill
Roxbury
I,
don't
see
a
voluntary
Franklin
for
for
our
advocacy
there
to
make
sure
there's
a
space
for
survivors
in
a
city-owned
building
in
the
mission
hill
area.
Boston.
P
The
body
camera
conversation
that
we're
having
we're
approaching
the
pilot.
The
right
way,
I
feel
the
honor
in
Boston,
because
we
are,
there
might
have
been
a
little
noise
before
we
got
the
cameras
on,
but
that
noise
has
gone
now
and
now
the
cameras
are
on
the
street,
we're
going
to
look
and
see
exactly
what
a
pilot
does
and
how
a
pilot
works
and
how
what
we
can
do
with
the
information
that
we
see
in
the
pilot
program.
P
But
what
they're
really
about
if
anyone's
been
on
one
it's
about
interacting
with
the
community,
because
what
we're
doing
is
we're
knocking
on
doors
and
people
going
to
be
problems
and
people
coming
out
to
meet
everyone
and
talk
to
the
police
officers
there
and
I
love
when
we
do
the
walk
of
a
young
comp
with
us,
because
they
usually
kind
of
stay
in
the
back
and
they'll
and
everything
on
to
do
and
they're
kind
of
stiff
walking
on
the
street.
And
then
they
get
a
hug
way.
P
Building
trucks
and
letting
people
know
the
police
know
that
I
wanted
was
a
particularly
again,
the
young
ones,
that
there
are
families
behind
the
doors,
their
families
that
work
hard
and
their
families
that
are
struggling,
their
families
with
challenges
and
their
families,
just
like
any
other
part
of
our
city,
are
a
part
of
our
country,
whether
you
go
to
a
rich
neighborhood
somewhere
in
California,
somewhere
Boston
in
Massachusetts.
You
know
when
you
walk
down
the
street
or
wealthy
neighborhood.
There
are
struggles
going
on
behind
those
doors.
P
Those
struggles
are
very
similar
to
the
struggles
that
door
just
roxbury
man,
a
pan
and
other
parts
of
the
city
are
going
through.
They
just
they
just
hold
it
in.
They
don't
tell
anyone
about
the
struggles
and
I
think
it's
important
for
us
to
continue
to
do
that.
This
year,
Boston
Police
Department
has
taken
six
hundred
guns
off
the
street.
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P
P
Last
year
we
had
a
drama
to
rest
by
50%
Boston,
so
I
dope
into
that
number
to
say:
is
it
that
the
police
aren't
doing
their
job
or
what's
the
story,
we
don't
have
enough
police,
how
come
they
never
sit
down
and
what
really
happened
was
there
was
a
lot
more
because
of
changing
the
system,
police
officer,
a
lot
more
conflict
resolution
on
the
street
this
year.
That
number
is
down
11
per
second,
when
you
think
about
what's
happening
in
our
city,
it's
a
botana.
We
also
build
our
relationship.
P
P
We
have
three
very
important
pieces
that
our
office
public
safety
works
on
in
our
entire
city
prevention
through
education
to
a
community
program
in
public
health.
We
have
to
continue
to
educate
as
many
people
as
we
can
and
that's
what
this
conference
is
about
is
education.
It's
about
education,
you
know,
so
it's
important
that
we
stay
on
the
same
time,
together:
intervention
at
early
ages
into
young
adulthood.
P
We
have
to
do
a
lot
more
engagement
because
we
have
to
continue
to
build
that
trust,
because
a
young
man
that
might
could
might
respect
the
police
officer
and
a
police
officer
might
respect
the
young
man
at
the
age
of
10,
it's
very
different
in
the
age
of
15
and
that's
just
a
five-year
swing.
So
we
have
to
do
more
as
far
as
intervention
reentry
services.
This
year
we
budgeted
for
an
office
of
returning
citizens.
That's
focused
on
issues,
I
believe
it's
the
first
time
ever,
we've
the
opposite.
P
Sure
that
when
people
come
out
of
prison,
that
they
have
an
opportunity
or
geo,
they
have
an
opportunity
to
opportunity.
We
enter
into
society.
We
have
also.
It
also
means
opportunity.
We
need
to
find
opportunity
driven
solutions.
One
program
that
we
created
was
called
Operation
exit,
which
we
have
now
graduated
60
and
young
adults
and
is
on
track
for
a
hundred
percent
placement
into
the
building
trades
and
in
some
quarters
as
well
about
ten
quarters.
So
what
we
did
was
we
talked
to
the
building
trades.
We
said.
P
P
They
don't
they
don't
have
a
job,
they
don't
have
a
GED
denied
education
and
it's
very
difficult
to
expect
somebody
who
who's
not
bring
anything
home
and
only
knows
how
to
do
something
wrong
way.
How
do
you
do
something
the
right
way,
so
we
created
operation
exit
team
on
her
own
and
calling
myself
we
sat
down
the
building
trades.
We
brought
them
in
its
ok
guys.
This
is
what
we
need
we
need.
P
We
need
a
program
because
the
building
trades
is
loaded
up
with
a
bunch
of
people,
white
and
black,
that
that
all
could
have
been
in
the
same
category,
same
boat,
same
problems
and
they
say
they
open
their
arms
and
doors
to
us
and
I'm
not
going
to
go
too
much
into
the
story.
We
probably
next
uShip
somebody
from
operation
X
to
speak
here.
To
talk
about
the
success
of
the
program.
I'll,
tell
you
one
quick
story:
the
team
iron
told
me
so
Danny
call
me
daily.
P
Danny,
said:
I
didn't
tell
your
story,
I
know
that
you
don't
have
good
thing,
so
I
want
to
tell
you
good
thing.
He
said
one
of
our
graduates
from
operation
acts
as
a
woman
and
she
was
involved
in
gang
activity
and
she,
a
couple
years
ago,
went
to
prison,
for
she
went
to
shoot
somebody
in
the
trigger
jams
and
the
gun
didn't
go
up,
but
she
got
convicted.
She
went
to
jail,
she
got
out
of
jail,
my
wife
was
going
around
in
a
roll
forming
door
and
somehow
she
got
tied
into
operation
exit.
P
She
graduated
operation
and
said
she's
now
working
and
she
had
you
know
she
chooses
major
player
in
the
street.
Now
she's
working
she's
just
going
to
show
you
yeah,
she
has
a.
She
has
a
one
year,
pension
credit.
She
had.
She
made
70
thousand
dollars,
she
saved
money
and
she's.
Looking
at
buy
a
house
and
she's
completely
turned
to
her
life
around
because
an
opportunity
to
present
it
to
her.
That's
what
we
have
to
do
and
that's
what
we're
all.
P
Violence
is
concentrated
in
certain
parts
of
the
city
or
rmn
opinion
and
my
neighborhoods
in
Dorchester.
We
know
that
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we
continue
to
work
at
that,
but
there's
reasons
for
that
as
well,
and
this
week
I
took
a
step.
I
had
a
conversation
at
the
Chamber
of
Commerce.
It's
a
business
group
in
Boston,
Boston,
chiba,
economics
and
I
talked
about
a
problem
of
systemic
racial
inequality
in
the
city
of
Boston
and
I
talked
about
having
a
citywide
conversation
and
I
talked
about.
P
The
conversation
is
long
overdue
and
I
spoke
to
the
business
leaders
because
they
said
to
them
that
many
of
you
are
doing
some
great
things
in
your
company's,
but
we
need
to
do
more.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
we
give
people
opportunities
for
pipelines
into
a
career,
not
just
simply
as
a
receptionist
or
somebody
is
something
somebody
empty
in
a
barrel.
There's
nothing
wrong
with
it.
In
a
barrel
my
father
came
from.
Ireland
is
a
laborer,
the
laborers
empty.
P
The
barrels
there's
nothing
wrong
with
that
career,
but
what
I
was
saying
to
them
is
we
need
to
do
more
and
have
conversations
about
race
and
we
need
to
find
common
understand
language
to
have
a
common
understanding
and
what's
happening
in
our
city.
I
talked
about
working
with
the
people
in
my
office.
P
If
you
really
going
to
have
those
conversations-
and
I
understand-
I
agree
with
that-
because
because
I
can
talk
about
growing
up
in
Dorchester,
I
can
talk
about
representing
one
of
the
most
district,
diverse
districts
in
the
hip
at
the
state
house,
when
I
was
a
state
rep
night,
it
was
0
to
1
to
5
by
the
way
is
that
in
the
top
10
most
of
verses,
it
cause
the
United
States
of
America
and
I
lived
in
that
childhood
and
that's
a
boy
thing.
You're
24
only
next
door,
so
so
I
talked
about
that.
P
But
but
those
conversations
have
open
up
a
whole
new
world.
For
me
and
those
are
the
conversations
that
I
suggested
the
business
community
they
sought
to
have
in
our
city,
I
urge
business
leaders
to
come
to
the
table.
Many
of
them,
some
of
them
already
engaged
in
the
conversations,
are
on
race
and
inequality,
but
I
ask
them
to
come
to
the
table
and
have
further
discussions.
We've
come
a
long
way
in
our
city,
but
we
still
a
long
way
to
go.
P
The
reason
why
I
give
you
a
little
briefing
what's
happening
is
the
conversation
that
you're
having
is
important,
but
when
you
look
down,
if
we
dig
down
deep
deep
deep
down
in
our
neighborhoods
about
violence
in
appalling
our
communities,
sometimes
it
comes
out
to
lack
of
education.
Sometimes
it
comes
on
a
lack
of
opportunity.
Sometimes
just
comes
out
to
be
in
the
wrong
place
at
wrong
time,
whatever
the
reason
I
as
a
city,
we
need
to
work
together
to
make
sure
that
we
end
this
I,
don't
like
they
said
right
side
of
this.
P
What
keeps
me
awake
at
night
is
the
violence
in
our
city.
Now
we
can
say
we're
not
other
cities
are
on
America
I,
don't
want
to
name
them
all.
If
you
look
at
around
America
a
child,
every
city
in
America,
the
crime
stats,
are
going.
This
way,
shooting
is
going.
This
way.
Homicides
are
going
this
way,
that's
not
the
case
you're
in
Boston,
which
I
think
makes
it
even
more
difficult
because
it
becomes
more
personal
for
us
into
small
city.
When
somebody
gets
killed
in
the
city
of
Boston,
whether
people
know
it
or
not.
P
There's
a
good
chance
that
somebody
in
the
mezz
opposite-
not
the
man
knows-
has
a
direct
connection
to
that
family.
So
I
want
to
thank
you
for
your
work.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
pushing
us
in
the
city.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
all
that
you
do
to
all
the
mothers
out
there
and
family
members
who
watch
say.
Thank
you
and
God
bless
you.
We
will
keep
you
in
on
Perez
and
I
want
to
fit.
P
We
want
to
thank
you
for
for
taking
the
loss
that
you've
experienced
in
your
family,
turning
it
into
a
learning
lesson
for
all
of
us.
So
thank
you
very
much
and
I.
Look
forward
to
hearing
about
the
results
of
the
conference.
I
know
that
when
at
least
against
some
great
speakers
coming
today
so
again,.