It’s Alarming’: New York City Mayor Eric Adams Asked About Four Shootings In 12 Hours In New York

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At a press briefing on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D-NY) was asked about four shootings that occurred in 12 hours in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City.

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00:00I'm off topics.

00:05I just wanted to get your comment on the four Bronx shootings in 12 hours last night,

00:12what you're doing about it, residents feel unsafe.

00:15What else can you tell us?

00:16One was delivering packages.

00:17Yeah, and we've been witnessing these acts of violence in the Bronx.

00:24We saw over the weekend as well.

00:27The commissioner reached out.

00:28We're going to put in place a full mobilization plan.

00:34You know, the issue with the Bronx, we're seeing gangs and young shooters and recidivism.

00:42That's a terrible equation.

00:45And all that we've done to bring down the numbers in the Bronx,

00:50to see shooters like this back-to-back in one of the incidents,

00:55as we believe it was an innocent bystander, is alarming.

00:59And we're going to have the chief up there come up with a full plan of how we're going to identify some of these locations and some of the gangs.

01:08That's why we have to be proactive with this stuff,

01:11because these young people are getting more and more involved in gang behavior,

01:16and they are finding themselves having just an overproliferation of guns that are coming into our city.

01:23You know, when you take 23,000 guns off the street and you're still able to have access to guns,

01:29that's a real national problem that must be addressed.

01:32But the team is doing a full mobilization plan up in the Bronx to address this.

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