ms. miss brown? >> welcome back. >> hello. >> it was nice seeing you today. >> i miss you guys. i've been down for a long time. i did not have anyone to talk to anymore. but i am back and i'm glad to see that everyone is back. again, i'm here to talk about my son. my son was murdered 12 years ago. i would like to use the overhead. >> it is on. >> he was murdered 12 years ago. next month is his anniversary. august 14th. it will be his anniversary. and it will have been 11 years since my son was murdered. i am asking again, for the media, to do another media coverage at his sight where everyone came last year to do another coverage. i spoke with my inspector today and he is going to be calling me again on friday and i am surprised to hear from him tod today. for some reason i had not heard from him in months. but he called me today and i am happy about that. he gave me a little information that made me feel a little glitch. but i am waiting to hear it from that. that, again, i keep having the perpetrators that murdered my son, is thomas hannibal and others. one of them is deceased

ms. miss brown comes to city hall every week and does this. i wish somebody in the community would have enough guts to come forward and help her out. next speaker. magic? >> yesterday at the board of supervisors, we presented the idea of creating a resolution to abolish i.c.e. and that there are -- the l.a. city council is also considering this. the house of representatives on the national level has a bill introduced to abolish i.c.e. this is a very encouraging idea that his taken effect in the country -- on the country within a few months. people are advocating for the abolishment. it was only created in 15 -- 15 years ago. we have an elder women here who are aware of what it feels like to think of our grandchildren and our children being treated like this. on cord -- cold floors drug, told not to touch each other, in darkened rooms. we cannot lose sight of what is happening here. the police commission aims to encourage -- in fact demand the police department protect us who are citizens out there. all generations for a week blocking that buil

ms. miss brown, and supervisor rafael mandelman. i'm sure you both will do an amazing job on behalf of your constituents and to the city. welcome to the board. i know firsthand what an honor it is to serve. again, it feels like i was just here yesterday. i look forward to really working with all of you to tackle many of our many pressing challenges that we need to deal with. in fact supervisor mandelman and i have already started. just a few weeks ago we travelled to sacramento to testify and support senate bill 1045 which expands our conservatorship programs providing us with additional tools to help those who are struggling with severe mental illness and substance abuse. what we see happening on our streets every single day is unacceptable. we have people who are struggling and not able to care for themselves and in some cases, are dying right before us. it is inhumane. it is not compassion to just allow people to die on our streets or cycle in and out of our jails because our current laws do not allow people to get the help that

my grandmother, miss camilla brown, at the end of the day she watched over me. just like she's watching over all of us here today. msa, we don't have much. why are you giving away what we have? she said, because that could be us. that could be you. that's what we do for each other. we look out for each other. whfrhman in high school, i got a job through the booker t. washington community center. it was through the mayor's youth employment and training program. i was 14 and hired as a receptionist to work at the family on philmore center. it helped teenage moms to get a ged and a job. i remember one day i saw the executive director reverend jones jr. writing a check to pay for his student loans. i said, what are you doing? still paying for school? he said, yes. i can pay this for the rest of my life but they can never take away my education. i could get a job anywhere doing anything i want. i stand at this podium today because a community believed in me. because our city services looked out for me. i stand at podium because people like ms. brown and reverend calvin jones jr. taught me that service to others is the mo