Eric Adams Decries Trump Shooting, Warns Of Radicalization Of Youth To Be 'Anti-Everything'

3 months ago

NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D-NY) speaks about political violence and radicalization of youth in America.

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00:00Thank you so much of Reverend Sharpton and

00:04Yesterday I was clearly trying to find a way we can properly

00:08Express what we're facing as a country as faith will have it

00:14Reverend Sharpton reached out and in the spirit of those who are standing be behind me and beside me

00:20We are coming from the same place and I think these

00:24elected leaders as well as the religious leaders are a

00:29Fair representation of what we are feeling in our country

00:34on the whole

00:35When a bullet leaves the barrel of the gun, it does not discriminate and not only

00:41seeks to harm the target, but as we saw yesterday innocent people are also

00:47Severely injured and lives are taken and there's so many questions that I believe is lingering over us

00:55What happens when a 20-year-old reaches a point

00:59where they believe the only way to settle their political differences and disputes is to use a

01:07AR-15 or a k-47 or any other form of handgun or weapon?

01:12That sends a terrible message and it only mirrors the poll that I have been quoting for the last few months

01:19That only 18% of 18 to 34 year olds really love America

01:25We have watched our children radicalized to a place

01:28To be anti everything and the extremes have basically hijacked

01:33What we feel as a country and what we stand for. I cannot thank

01:38Councilman Borelli minority leader enough of

01:42For understanding how significant this is we could line up on political lines

01:47But he's a dad like I'm a I am a dad

01:50He loves this city. Like I love this city

01:53he believed we should raise healthy children and families like I do and

01:57Good healthy debate is part of the democratic process and what it represents

02:03And then when you see a rabbi Potasnik in the imams that are here and other faith leaders that are here

02:09Every day in their houses rush up

02:11We want to send out a clear and loud message

02:15How do we live together as members of the greatest race alive and that's the human race. It was a chilling chilling

02:22Visualization as I watch what happened yesterday

02:26inches away

02:28From the former president losing his life. It's unimaginable that his children would have to experience that his wife

02:35Those who love him and his family and those who are politically aligned with him

02:41To watch that in horror

02:44To see the history of what bullets have done how it has reshaped our past and it could reshape our future

02:52ever since Abraham Lincoln

02:55dr. King Ronald Reagan

02:57the families of the Kennedys both senator and president of Kennedy

03:01Losing their lives Omega Evers losing his life

03:06We're watching how the destructive power of a bullet can change the entire direction of our entire

03:13Country and I am troubled by some of the even the responses we saw on social media on so many different levels

03:20We have to ask ourselves

03:22What are we doing to our young people and our families and how do we regain that?

03:27and I believe is by doing of the accumulation of people who are here today to start with this small group and

03:34Really put in place a letter that we're going to send out and ask everyone to sign on to it to stop this toxic

03:43violence that we're seeing

03:44Political violence is not how we settle how we peacefully transfer

03:51Power in this country

03:53We have been a living example for the entire globe on the success of this country

03:58And it's hundreds of years as we're on the eve of the 400th year celebration

04:04Of how we have managed even during difficult times to show who we are as an Americans

04:11And that's why I'm here today

04:12And I'm so pleased that Reverend Sharpton reached out and we're joined by other leaders who are saying the same thing

04:20We must live together

04:23We must start the process of healing not only our country

04:27but healing our young people a

04:3020-year-old

04:32Was in possession of an automatic weapon and was willing to use it to take the life of

04:41someone he had a

04:42political difference with

04:45That is not acceptable

04:46And it's not who we are as a country and it's not who we are as an individual

04:52And it's not who we believe our children should become

04:56There's no place for hate in

04:58our city or our country and I'm going to commit myself to those who are standing here today and

05:05Those who are not here because they could not make it because of short notice

05:09To state we will move our country in the right direction. It starts with us. It starts with us

05:15And so again, I want to thank everyone for joining us today as we damn every river of the toxic

05:23Violence that we're seeing so it does not continue to spill over into a sea of violence. We can do it together

05:30Thank you, and I want to call on now

05:33Reverend ARP Bernard and followed by him would be

05:37the minority leader

05:40Councilman Pirelli

Eric Adams Decries Trump Shooting, Warns Of Radicalization Of Youth To Be 'Anti-Everything'

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