so i want to welcome everybody. my name is rudy corpus. this is our 14th annual gun buyback, which we have numerous partners that make this happen. we cannot do this alone. you cannot do this alone. we have community

based organizations like damien from us, us for us. where you at, damien? right here. all cbos. we got the mayor, london breed. who as she's mayor, got the lowest homicide count since the 60s. and i'm sure you're going to speak on that. that's right. and i just told the sister seven years ago, in this exact same room is where she came when mayor ed lee made the late mayor ed lee passed away when she announced she was being mayor. so thank you. welcome back. it's always good to have you, queen. you know, i am always here representing for the people. we are our district attorney, brooke jenkins, in the house. we got moms demand action. maddie scott from brady campaign. we got pierce's pledge. leslie a mother. we got everett butler, who represents

all the lifers. lifers? raise your hand. we have stacey from the dispensary. private sector from the stores, the dispensary world. my sister right here, daisy wright. she's here with steph, my filipino sister. welcome. we have many people here that make this what it is. our 14th annual gun buyback. we have already got 4000 guns off the streets. right? we got 350 assault rifles. and so i'm just saying this because we can't do it alone. and before i bring everybody on the number one cause of death for children under 18 is gun violence, y'all. and so i wanted to reiterate that and let y'all know this is why we all come together. you feel me, though, terrence? this is why we're here. this is my brother tee from the tl who's been boots on the ground fighting the good fight. thank you for showing up, king. yes,

sir. you know what i mean? so i want to go ahead and bring on the mayor. london breed. give a hand, y'all. thank you so much, rudy. and thank you to all the different people who are here today, especially those representing different organizations. i appreciate the work that you have done over the years to ensure that this continues. because you look around this room, rudy, you know, in the past it would be packed with cameras. that's right. and the fact that we have come so far in our work and how we've been able to help reduce gun violence in san francisco, reduce the homicide rate to the lowest level since the 1960s, has everything to do with our ability to do this work and never, ever walk away from it.

because even though we may be in a good place, there were still 33 people who were killed in this city this year. and that's a life loss with a community impacted, with a family impacted. and we can't ever give up until that number is at zero. and even then we have to continue because we know it's not just about san francisco, it's about gun violence and guns in our society and their negative impact. for so many years since the since the founding of this country, you could look back at how guns have had a terrible impact on people's lives. and now, more than ever has evolved, evolved and impacting especially low income communities, evolved and impacting kids in schools where they're doing gun drills instead of earthquake drills. this is

why we're here today, to make sure that this is not forgotten. this work is too important. it's important because it is life saving work. when you talk about 4000 guns off the streets and multiply that by the number of people who could have been impacted. those are the stories that don't get told, because those are the things that do not happen as a result of this work. it is important now more than ever, that we do everything we can to get guns off the streets, to get assault rifles, which should not even be in our communities, off the streets. so when you show up this saturday. no questions asked, you're making a life saving decision to say, i'm going to put down my weapons. i'm going to get rid of my weapons out of my home. i'm

going to be a part of the solution, and i'm not going to have blood on my hands, because that's what you're saying when you give up your weapons. so i want to appreciate rudy and united players for consistently doing this incredible work. is that the house cat that just walked through? i was about to hit the door. i didn't know what that was. you want to turn in her gun? because i don't mess around with rodents. now. but i want to appreciate united players and rudy and so many of the organizations, you know, this coalition of, you know, folks who have been formerly incarcerated and have come home to provide solutions and to make communities safe. no one does it better. the moms demand action and the brady campaign with maddie scott, who led this charge even before many of these organizations existed with the

healing circles and bringing moms together. when the worst situation of any mom or family's life happens. maddie scott is right there providing the healing, providing the support. and now more than ever, we need to continue to build upon this coalition in a way that we drive down violence, especially by guns. and so this is a part of doing that, and i am so grateful to be here and so excited about what this work has done and what it has meant to help reduce violent crime in san francisco now and into the future. thank you. thank you. yes. and for the record, the cat want to turn in his gun. y'all cats got guns. might be our next one. this is my brother right here. timothy smith, aka face, who did 30 some

years in prison, but he's on the streets right now with a lot of other brothers who are lifers out here with damian and his squad, with the youth and mothers. who's out there? that's oscar grant right there, y'all. the father of oscar grant, who's putting in work. all these brothers right here got their boots to the ground, in the streets, all over the bay area, posting up fliers for the gun buybacks to turn in their guns. you imagine somebody who was on the other side now, but working on this side of the gun to save lives. i think that deserves a applaud. thank you brother. yeah, yeah. and so i want to bring up our district attorney who's been relentless of holding people accountable, which was supposed to happen as somebody who was an ex-felon who is an ex-felon, if you crossed the line, then you got to be held accountable, right? ain't no if what's up, but you got to be a part if you're a part of that game, that's a lifestyle that

you live. you can't be complaining or be upset when you get caught. and so our district attorney is fair. she's firm, but she's damn like cement in the ground, right? yes. come on now, hair be silky too. so let me bring up my sister right here. a district attorney, brooke jenkins. hello. hello. oh, man. you know, i have that reputation of being so tough. tough on crime. but i think you hit the nail on the head at the end there, rudy, which is our job, is to be fair. there has to be accountability. but we're going to do it with fairness in san francisco. and we're going to be thoughtful, because every time somebody does something, it doesn't mean we have to be disproportionate with the consequence that they face. but i have to just applaud everybody in this room because, yes, we were just at a press conference, the mayor and i and the chief talking about and in a way trying to highlight or at least be encouraged by the fact that the homicide rate is so low this year. and it has been it is a

testament not only to the work of the mayor's office, law enforcement partners, as well as community based organizations. just like united players who are on the ground trying to steer our youth and our young adults into the right direction. but it takes constant work and it takes things just like a gun buyback program to make sure that we're not taking those numbers for granted, that we have to keep this work going, and that saving even one life is worth it. and so i appreciate you, united players, for making sure that this is an ongoing effort that you do annually. we know that it's hard for somebody to walk up to a to a table with a gun and trust the process that they aren't going to be arrested in that moment, that they're not going to face charges and end up in jail. and so a part of that is in why you've been so successful is because the community trusts you. yes. and so i did want to highlight that, no, i will not be there because

i don't want anybody thinking that if they get seen by the da or some element of law enforcement, that that will change the outcome. right. but i am happy to be here today to really speak in support of this program, to really encourage people to turn those guns in. like you said, this is a moment, mayor, where somebody can make a choice to change the course of their life, to not be exposed to being arrested for that gun, to not expose themselves to making a bad choice with that gun. and so that's what we want each and every day. i don't want to have to be a reactionary da after something terrible happens. i want to be a da that's on the front lines of preventing it in the first place. and i can't do it alone. it takes all of us together. and i know that's the commitment that we all have, because we want to see fewer mothers at cemeteries visiting their children, fewer fathers at cemeteries, having to visit their children. and so that's what it's about. and i'm happy to be a partner in that work. thank you, thank you. thank you,

district attorney brooke jenkins, for always showing up. and i do want to make sure and acknowledge the sfpd is a part of us doing this together. and you said it. we would not be doing this if we didn't feel like it was community led. we wouldn't have a brother like jack. jack. right here. jack. jack, come on over here, man. come on, man, that is right there. the ultimate out. this dude right here helped everybody out. that's right. yeah. from the elementary to the penitentiary. we would not. jack would not stand if we knew it was not community led for. so jack to be here, you got to know this thing is real. yeah. and so thank you, jack, for showing jack doesn't come out. you understand what i'm saying? it's rare to see jack come out. you'll see santa claus. if you see this santa claus on my mama and she in heaven. and so thank you for coming out, big dawg, i

appreciate it. you're the best. alright, so we got two more speakers. i want to bring a mother out. i want to bring a mother out. she's going to tell and share her story. she's from pierce's pledge. my sister, my homegirl. bring up leslie. you. hi, i'm leslie hue, and i really wish that i wasn't standing here talking today, but on january the 13th, 2021, my son pierce was murdered by my ex-husband. his father, he was just nine years old. he shot him with a gun while he was sleeping and turned the gun on himself. as you know, gun violence is the number one leading cause of death of children under the age of 18. 23 kids are shot every

day, five of which are killed. five kids a day. what happened to pierce happens once a week in america. majority with guns. and this is not an acceptable way of living. so what? i'm so grateful for what united players and sfpd and everybody standing here is doing is giving people a resource. you know, life changes, things change. and you need to know when the gun is important to have in your house. maybe the risk now having the gun in your house at ways what the reason why you bought it. and so now you have a place to say, you know, right now in this world that with gun violence this high, maybe guns are not important in my life, and now

you have a place to actually turn it in without any questions, and you even get money for it. i mean, this is like a dream, i think. so i think it's really important that people really think about what guns mean to them in their life and whether it's important for them. and now you have a place to drop them off and get rid of them. i do want to also thank the kids of pierce's class and the kids of united players. we came together in may last year. you know, these kids have all been affected by gun violence. and what we did is we had a dog competition and these kids faced the pain that they had from losing their their friend at nine years old, and they wrote to their friends and said, we're raising money for a gun buyback for the united players, gun buyback. and jointly, these two kids planned this dog race. they came up with the idea of the race. they came up with team names. they came together as a group of kids from two different places in san francisco, all

affected by gun violence, and they raised $82,000. yeah, you. have to pay to get these guns off the street, guns out of people's hands so that those guns can't hurt another person again. so i'm so grateful to them. these kids are 12 years old now. they're powerful. they're amazing. they're changing their pain into advocacy, just like everybody here. and so i'm very grateful to rudy, to united players, to maddie for saying that we have to speak up for those who can't. and thank you, everybody. give it up for leslie, y'all. it is not easy to come up here to speak, especially when you have lost somebody you love. yes, i want to be real clear about this. i am not against the

second amendment, but i am against senseless gun violence. too often there's guns in the house that are loaded and unlocked. one, three with children in the house, you got domestic violence that rise during the holidays. you got suicide. and so if you know there's a gun in somebody's house and it's not being used as somebody who used to be on the other side of the law, when i would come up in your house, i would look for money, jewelry and guns, and if i got that gun, i would use that gun to commit a crime. so if you have a gun in your house that's just there and you ain't using it, or, you know, somebody turn it in to us. yes, yes, i'm going to give you some money on it. and the sfpd will dismantle and destroy it and will make it to where the gun parts can never be put together to make another gun. right. and so we want to be real

clear. when you have a gun and that bullet flies out the chamber of that one gun, it's not going to discriminate who it's going to hit. it could be a filipino man. it could be a latino man. it could be a white man. it could be a black man. it could be whoever. it doesn't care about your religion. it doesn't care about your age. it doesn't care about your economical background. when that bullet comes flying out, i know what it feels like not just to get hit, but to have to dodge bullets. it's going to destroy everything in its path. and these guns that they got on the streets, ghost guns with no serial numbers on them or being used on these streets. and if you get one of those, you squeeze that trigger. it can knock down everybody in this room. and so we got to play our part to end senseless gun violence. look at the faces on the wall. these are all faces who should be here with us. they

died too young. and so we want to make sure. don't nobody have to go through that pain. don't nobody have to suffer like mother, maddie, leslie or anybody who's standing in here that got a loved one. and so let's stand up, right? like maddie, scott always says, it's all of us or none of us. that's right. and it's like a rock in a pond when you throw it, when somebody get killed. bad news. travel fast. right, face? yeah. yeah. come on, man. you dealing with some real players up in here? you dig what i'm saying? we all on the other side of the gun now. we making peace fashionable. we making sure that we got all our player partners here now. oscar right. to make sure we do what we gotta do to save a life. because that one life that grows up, that we may save, may be the life that grows up and change his whole world. yes. y'all didn't hear me, though. that one life that grows up, that who's lived and

survived and went through a program like damien's, who get wisdom, get game, get life, will grow up and could change this world to make it safer for all of us. so with that said, i want to bring up our last speaker, my brother, who did a life sentence behind gun violence. who me and him is tight, like ten toes and one sock. imma bring up my brother, man. every brother. come on up here, bull. oh well, i put my hard hat on, right? because it's not a game. you see those pieces right there? those pieces will never hurt another soul. but you can rest assured, when they was together, they did. yeah. so today we are out here to do what we going to do. and that's take the guns off the street. it's been 4000 of them that has been taken off the street due to the work that we do. and i salute each and every one of you. the work we do is

not to go unnoticed. it's to be noticed. we need to get this global, not just in the bay, but everywhere today. but we going to start here today as we push forward and do what we need to do. i want to let you know the work is far from easy, but it got to be done. and with the hard work and dedication with united players, west bay, us for us, moms demand action and everybody else, we can do it because it is being done. it's not that it can't be done. we got to do it. it's for the kids. if you see the smiles on them kids faces, it makes me get up. i'm encouraged to get up here and do what i'm doing today. but i can tell you i wasn't always like this. it's a guy right there. i used to run the streets with him. we was tearing up the streets and it wasn't for the right thing. it was for the wrong thing. but our minds believed that it was. so when i sit down and changed my train of thought today, i stand with a different train of thought. i'm reconstructing. i'm pushing forward for the right purpose, and that's to save a life and not hurt another life. this is the gun buyback. it will be coming saturday, boots on the ground. when a person come

walking up, what will they be saying? they were walking. hero walking. come on. because the hero is going to be the one that helped save another life. like he said, the one that we, the gun you turn in might be the one that saved the life of the kid that's going to help rule the world. come on now. and it could be a boy or a girl. yeah, it don't matter. it's a human being. it's a human being. together we stand. divided. we forever be stuck. so come on, meet me in that backfield and do the work. when i say it's boots on the ground. you know the sound. meet me out there. it's not a game, though. i'm serious about that. because i was serious about when i wasn't about this here. so i'm serious about this now. i'm pushing for change. together we stand. thank you. hello? yes. before. before we sign off, i want to thank all our partners. i want to thank you, brother cesar, for coming up here and praying. make sure you get an address and all that. okay. thank you. thank you, césar, for praying. our brother

cesar, who did over 26 years. but his back changing lives. i want to thank you. london breed, our mayor, san francisco, for kicking butt. girl, i love you. a lot of these other brothers up here love you too. hold on. yes. our district attorney, brooke jenkins. thank you, queen, for coming out. leslie, where you at? the mamas? leslie. maddie. all moms demand action. you guys. thank you guys for pulling up and always playing your part. and my brother boogie for always standing up for all the brothers man who was incarcerated. see, boogie didn't tell you he was on the road at one time. he sat on that shelf. but through the grace of god and through the glory of god, this brother man is out on the streets saving lives. so thank you, brother. yeah. thank you, jack, for showing up. and so this saturday, december 14th, 1038

howard street, the players club, at 8 a.m. to 12 noon. we are having our gun buyback. please spread the word this saturday, december 14th, 8 a.m. to 12 noon. no questions asked, no questions asked. so turn him in you guys. we want to get as many guns as we can off the streets, and we're going to dismantle them and it's going to be made out of art. and so thank you guys for showing up. everybody playing their part. everybody i did miss i want to say thank you guys for coming out. and let's continue to fight that. good fight y'a to save the lives of these children. yes god bless you all. thank you.

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