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hear from government officials and several mayors including clinton lucas from kansas city and byron brown from buffalo, new york. >> it is great to be with everyone. my name is clinton lucas, i'm the mayor kansas city, missouri and chair of the u.s. congress of mayors social justice committee. we appreciate you joining us today for this important conversation. first, i will introduce those who are with us today, then we will do a little studying up for our panel and proceed with our distinguished panel. we look forward, as we do in all our meetings or discussions, your questions, your comments, because we all recognize these are issues of vital importance to all our communities and we stay committed to making sure we can solve on long-term. first to my left is amy solomon, our distant -- district attorney general for the department of justice, kristen de tineo of the department of alcohol, firearms and explosives, mayor byron brown, the mayor of san jose, tishaura jones of st. louis, terrance nash, deputy director of group violence strategy, the mayor's office of safety and engagement in

byron brown spoke with jessie's daughter pamela, about her father's legacy and what it means to see his story brought to life and cinema. >> the motion picture devotion tells of a friendship that developed between navy aviators. tom hunter in harrisburg, native jesse were brown who grew up picking cotton. but this is the first african american navy aviator who died during the korean war after his plane was hit by enemy gunfire. in 1950, jonathan majors plays jesse brown. i don't think after this. >> we will the courier a guy who you know it stands right beside the tuskegee airman and people is a memory and in i hope this based on what we did in that film, i have no doubt his life in the war lies at the african american military history museum in harrisburg, where reception was held recently with family friend and cast from the movie to honor him and others who have served our country. and will mike is just the browns daughter back a friendship that can become a devoted friendship. it was another person and no matter what your differences are, that you become friends and everything doesn

reduce gun violence and we hear from government officials and civil mayors including kansas city and byron brown, the mayor of buffalo, new york. >> to my left is amy, our principal deputy assistant attorney general and the office of justice programs. kristin, assistant rector of field operations of alcohol -- assistant director of field operations of alcohol, and firearms. we have the mayor of san jose california, the mayor of st. louis, parents--, the deputy director for group violence reduction strategies in the neighborhood safety and engagement in the city of baltimore maryland and we will have the general assembly guide of springfield, missouri and we thank you for your attendance here today. in this session we will highlight a few things, newly expanded funding opportunities from the department of justice to support our local efforts to reduce gun violence and brushes between the cities and forward to sharing some of the resources that we have in the office of just program of gun violence, i am really interested to see my fellow panelists about what they are testing out. gun violence is a

that byron brown reporting. obviously we've got this story that we just showed you and others, too, that we're collecting as are honoring black history month. that's on our website. kron 4 dot com and scanning a qr code. we'll take you right to that page. and speaking of history month in something sort of sum worth recognizing for the first time in super bowl history to black starting quarterbacks. >> playing against each other for the big game. and we're talking about patrick mahomes of the chiefs and jalen hurts for the eagles. both also from texas. by the way, mahomes will be making his 3rd trip to the big game after a dramatic 23. 20 victory over the bengals sunday night. and this will be jalen hurts. first super bowl. another story line this year, 2 brothers will face off in the game. can't city chiefs tight end? travis kelsey and philadelphia eagles center jason kelsey. tough for his for their his for their >> a 5 more than back. when a truck hit my car, his for their >the insurance company wasn't fair. i

that was pretty good. >> i was byron brown reporting for us. an entire section on our web site dedicated to black history month. you can scan the qr code on your screen and it will take you directly to that page. well, he is a 49 are no more demeco ryans has been hired as the next head coach of the houston texans, multiple outlets including espn and the associated press reporting. it is a 6 year contract. ryan's has spent the past 2 seasons as san francisco's defensive coordinator during his time here. the niners had one of if not the best defenses in football leading every major stat, including points and yards allowed for ryan's. this move to houston is a homecoming. he was drafted by the texans in 2006 and posted up a big part of his career there. so congrats to him. cipher niner nation. the rough week. if care niner and a rough week, if you don't like the cold or if it's hard for me to be outside as the sun setting here in san francisco are going to talk about our forecast and also the next kind of chances of rain coming for the weekend. ye

so mayor byron brown, and mike polancars wanted to be here. they've been doing a lot as well. i want to thank them for being in the trenches together as we battle the deadly storm. also -- to the members of judiciary we look to you for leading our way. making the right decisions. i'm proud of every one of you. to the girl scouts, 4h students, young students we saw in the video, thank you. to the member and women of labor, who are with us here today, people often ask how i get through this. kind of a rough and tumble job for a woman, isn't it? i got steel running thru my veins. my daddy was a steelworker. my grandpa was a steelworker my uncles were steelworkers. i can handle this. don't worry about me. but i know how hard the men and women of labor work every sing dale and you make us proud. let me get to the people i spend the most time with, not as often as i'd like these days. the las vegas of my life, new york's first, first gentleman, bill hochul. he has endured my absences and stress, i told him stop reading social media, don't read the blog, don't read the news anymore.

now's a perfect time to bring in buffalo's mayor, byron brown. od to see you this evening. >> good to be with you. >> you know, we all watched as it happened on that monday night football game and really, the nation stopped and the world stopped to see what happened. and they were obviously thinking about buffalo bills star damar hamlin, and your city more broadly, and i wonder, you know, where he is now in terms of his recovery. i understand that he's been discharged, thankfully from the hospital but has also been at the team facility nearly every single day, but he does have challenges ahead, do you know how he's doing? >> he's doing much better, his recovery has been remarkable, to me it shows the power of prayer, people praying all across buffalo, cincinnati, across the nation, across the world. and to see him recover from a life-threatening injury on the field, and be able to come back to the bills facility and spend time with his teammates, be discharged from the hospital, certainly, has been very inspirational. >> i mean, really, when i thi

applause] appointive privilege to make a hometown football copilots who knows my own executive and a byron brownbuffalo. please stand up. [applause] i think it's super bowl lies ahead. good luck to the giants, too. [laughing] and two by members of my cabinet, these are extraordinary, i want them to stand up every t member of my cabinet because we push you so hard. you have worked so tirelessly and you are the team that i come in a state with and i'm so grateful for all the work you do. do. let's give a round of applause to the cabinet. [applause] let's give a round of applause to labor. [applause] and many, many distinguished guests who travel here today. you know, my fellow elected officials, its owner to be back in this chamber and seeing you. one year ago i stood here, gave the address. the speaker was in here. we had speaker stokes up here we had the leader, and we spoke to an empty audience. it was extraordinary how far we'vera come in this one year fm literally had to address empty seats. but i did get a round of applause, not a lot that day, from my loyal staff in the back when i announce

as residents started to dig out, buffalo mayor byron brown reflected. >> it was a painful year for alld into 2023 as a resilient community, as a strong community, as a community that has lifted itself up through all these challenges. >> reporter: buffalo residents were still dealing with the after-effects of that storm when hamlin's injury occurred on monday night football. and as geneva smith johnson, who is knew five of the top super market visiting, notes all these traumas were beyond the control of buff lonans. >> we can't control the weather so it happened. unfortunately, we can't control people. i'm referring about the may 14th incident. there was no way to stop that from happening. and then with the injury, i don't know how you can prepare for something that's unexpected, how can you control things that's beyond your control? >> reporter: but this church deckon who worked with one of the shooting victims says the city will bounce back. >> we get together, we put a plan together, and what do we have to do to put things back to normal? >> reporter: buffalo bills fans and players a

as residents started to dig out, buffalo mayor byron brown reflected. >> it was a painful year for allresilient community, as a strong community, as a community that has lifted itself up through all of these challenges. >> reporter: buffalo residents were still dealing with the aftereffects of that storm when hamlin's injury occurred on monday night football. as geneva notes, all of these traumas were beyond the control of buffaloions. >> you can't control the weather. so it happened. unfortunately, we can't control people. i'm referring about the may 14th incident. there was no way to control or stop that from happening. and then with the injury, i don't know how you can prepare for something that's unexpected, how you can control things beyond your control. >> reporter: church deacon jeffrey peace, who worked with one of the shooting victims, says the city will rebound. >> we bounce back. we continue. we don't stop functioning, don't shut down. we get together. we put a plan together and what do we have to do to put things back to normal. >> reporter: buffalo bills fans themselves ar

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and joining me is the mayor of buffalo, new york, byron brown, thank you for coming in.out the continuing progress that damar is making? >> absolutely great news. uplifting news. community has been through a lot. what happened to damar hamlin, his injury was another gut punch to the city of buffalo and to see him recovering so remarkably is certainly lifting spirits throughout our community and across the country. >> absolutely. you know, mayor, we just heard -- we heard adrienne played some sound from his care team and doctors treating him and we heard that doctors said that his first question when he woke up was, did we win? what do you think when you heard that? >> it is amazing. you hear so many stories of dammar ma'am lynn being a giving spirit and being a loving person and sharing his love for his teammates. it is not surprising that the first thing that he would say when he woke up is did we win? certainly someone that has worked hard to become a professional football player and it just shows the type of character he has and the way he cares for his teammates. >>

continues to face every challenge, and is frankly one of the strongest leaders, and it's our friend byron brown of buffalo. we thank you for all you have done in leadership over the recent years, particularly this most recent year when challenge after challenge you and an example of what mayors can do, how strong they can be and how professional they can be. thank you for spending time with us, thank you -- we give you the floor. >> inc. very much, mayor lucas, gifford that -- thank you very much amir lucas, thank you for that introduction. i want to -- thank you ms. solomon for your outreach to the city of buffalo. at a very challenging and difficult time for us. buffalo has -- as a city unfortunately, averages about 43 homicides, guns -- gun homicides annually for the last 10 years. we decided recently, in december of last year, to file a lawsuit against ghost gun manufacturers, and gun industry members, and your fractures, dealers and distributors. when buffalo filed this lawsuit, i think we became the first city in the nation to file a lawsuit of this type against these two entities that dr

and byron brown spoke with just daughter pamela knight about a father's legacy and what it means to seerought to life. >> the motion picture devotion tells of a friendship that developed between navy aviators. tom hunter in harrisburg, native jesse brown. brown who grew up picking cotton. this is the first african american navy aviator who died during the korean war after his plane was hit by enemy gunfire. in 1950, jonathan majors plays jesse brown. i don't think after this. >> we will the korean war says the guy who you know, and and stands right beside the tuskegee airman and people is a memory and i hope this based on what we did not have no doubt his life in the war lies at the african american military history museum in harrisburg, where reception was held recently with family friend and cast from the movie to honor him and others who have served our country. and will mike is just the browns daughter, the fact a friendship that can become a devoted friendship was another person. and no matter what your differences are, that you become friends and everything doesn't have to as some

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