and other pastors who are joining us here today as well as sherman tillman from the black firefighters for his support and, at this time, i want to introduce reverend shaw from betho ame and floyd tramel from first friendship. i want to introduce cathy cook to come forward and say a few words. >> good afternoon. can you hear me? okay. when i pulled up, i saw whole groups of young men across the street. that's why i'm here. when i look at you, we are preaching to the choir because we know what we need to do. i used to be a deputy executive director and i touched the lives of these young men that you see on the street, but they're gone. i am hurting. i am burrying my son on tuesday i didn't get a chance to say good-bye. i begged him to be vaccinated, he wouldn't do it. so he had to leave my house because i wanted him to be safe. i saw him july 7th and i looked through the gate. i said have you been vaccined? vaccinated? and he just threw his hands up and all i saw was his back. it took them three days to find me. he was in kaiser in oakland. he was dying. he had acute pneumonia and he ha

and other pastors who are joining us here today as well as sherman tillman from the black firefighters for his support and, at this time, i want to introduce reverend shaw from betho ame and floyd tramel from first friendship. i want to introduce cathy cook to come forward and say a few words. >> good afternoon. can you hear me? okay. when i pulled up, i saw whole groups of young men across the street. that's why i'm here. when i look at you, we are preaching to the choir because we know what we need to do. i used to be a deputy executive director and i touched the lives of these young men that you see on the street, but they're gone. i am hurting. i am burrying my son on tuesday i didn't get a chance to say good-bye. i begged him to be vaccinated, he wouldn't do it. so he had to leave my house because i wanted him to be safe. i saw him july 7th and i looked through the gate. i said have you been vaccined? vaccinated? and he just threw his hands up and all i saw was his back. it took them three days to find me. he was in kaiser in oakland. he was dying. he had acute pneumonia and he ha

and other pastors who are joining us here today as well as sherman tillman from the black firefightersupport and, at this time, i want to introduce reverend shaw from betho ame and floyd tramel from first friendship. i want to introduce cathy cook to come forward and say a few words. >> good afternoon. can you hear me? okay. when i pulled up, i saw whole groups of young men across the street. that's why i'm here. when i look at you, we are preaching to the choir because we know what we need to do. i used to be a deputy executive director and i touched the lives of these young men that you see on the street, but they're gone. i am hurting. i am burrying my son on tuesday i didn't get a chance to say good-bye. i begged him to be vaccinated, he wouldn't do it. so he had to leave my house because i wanted him to be safe. i saw him july 7th and i looked through the gate. i said have you been vaccined? vaccinated? and he just threw his hands up and all i saw was his back. it took them three days to find me. he was in kaiser in oakland. he was dying. he had acute pneumonia and he had all of t