when the attack happened in pittsburgh, what happened prior to the attack, we have a community relations council. a community relations council director in pittsburgh spends time with all faith-based groups. that's his job. and he convenes interfaith committee. we talk to different groups. when the attack happened in pittsburgh, it was instantaneous. we had every faith-based group. african-american, muslim, christian groups, surrounding us in pittsburgh. that didn't happen by chance. that happened by that interfaith community working together. and we felt that through the community in pittsburgh right away. we had a muslim group working with us, and quite frankly, they were one of the first groups that donated money to the victims of terror fund. and it was heartening to see that. but that work was done prior to that shooting. >> the gentleman's time has expired. thank you so much. i now recognize the gentlelady from illinois, ms. robin kelly. >> oh, kelly. i didn't see you. i did not see him come in. >> the gentleman, mr. keller is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair. and i would like to than

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association, the chinese american democratic club, visitation valley, lbgf club, jewish community relation's councilnd neighborhood association, golden gate heights association, sunset heights association of responsible people and stop crime sf. i want to thank my cosponsors, supervisors and my aid who did a lot of work on this legislation. recently, chief scott and mayor breed announced a decline in violent crime and property crime city-wide. this is positive news and also out of sync. this came from growing fears within the asian community, in particular, that they have been increasing like victimized by violent and property crime. the racially fueled attack of an older chinese man to being the latest in a continual series of high profile crime incidents targeting older chinese community members in chinatown, southeast neighborhoods and the sunset district. and since trump's election, we've seen a dramatic increase in hate motivated crimes, locally and nationally leading to growing fears within communities of colour, lgbtq, safe communities and others but targeted attacks. and the crime victim dat