Students, parents and teachers in america, is it safe to go back to school . This is nearly 100,000 children test positive for covid19 in the last two weeks of july. Now the School Districts staying their course despite growing doubts. Its these crowded hallways that hannah waters feared as she headed back to her Georgia School last week. The outside looks like a normal day like were going about it and trying to stay as safe as possible. But when you really go on the inside, thats why i took the photo, because people dont know what it looks like from the inside. Just two days into the school year, the sophomore honor student took out her phone and began to film the crowds. You get an insight to what it looks like from the students and teachers view how dangerous it is to be in there and how easily it is to contract things in there. Her video going viral, thousands sharing her post, sparking a nationwide conversation on whether schools should open as coronavirus cases continue to rise a
Hall event, anything . The cross hairs, from the South Shore Cultural Center in chicago, here is chris hayes. [ applause ] good evening from chicago, im chris hayes, i am thrilled to be here for a special town hall event in this incredible city. Its americas thirdlargest city and its special to me. But lately as someone here put it, its become the poster child for violence in america. This is due to a real surge of violence but also in part to the perception of this city as expressed so loudly and frequently by the new president of the United States. In chicago theyve had thousands of shootings, thousands and im saying where is this . Is this a war torn country . What are we doing . By the way, toughest gun laws in the world, chicago, and people are shooting themselves all other the place, okay . The problem is not that there are too many police, there are not enough police. Its worse than some of the places that we read about in the middle east. We have wars going on. Its so sad. Chic
The cross hairs, from the South Shore Cultural Center in chicago, here is chris hayes. [ applause ] good evening from chicago, im chris hayes, i am thrilled to be here for a special town hall event in this incredible city. Its americas thirdlargest city and its special to me. But lately as someone here put it, its become the poster child for violence in america. This is due to a real surge of violence but also in part to the perception of this city as expressed so loudly and frequently by the new president of the United States. In chicago theyve had thousands of shootings, thousands and im saying where is this . Is this a war torn country . What are we doing . By the way, toughest gun laws in the world, chicago, and people are shooting themselves all other the place, okay . The problem is not that there are too many police, there are not enough police. Its worse than some of the places that we read about in the middle east. We have wars going on. Its so sad. Chicago has become so sad.
we have wars going on. it s so sad. chicago has become so sad. last month after apparently watching a news report about the surge in crime here the president took to twitter to threaten if anything doesn t fix the horrible carnage going only send in the feds. with chicago having become a presidential punching bag, we wanted to come to this city and give officials and activists and others who live here a platform to respond to talk about the real problems and the work towards real solutions. perhaps the president will see this because we have a lot of choices in this room that deserve to be heard. i want to introduce a few right now. joining me on stage, four of those voices, andrea zopp, deputy mayor of chicago, also former president and ceo of the chicago urban legal. i have also the superintendent suspect of the chicago police department. thank you for being here. good to be here. amina matthews, someone who has a lot of experience in trying to interrupt violence
raise your hand if you have like you have trauma. let me talk to you rachel. thank you. you re wearing the button of someone. yeah. he was two two people i lost within a week s span. i grew up in grove heights, a little neighborhood south side of chicago, jay s potato chip was the main job in the neighborhood so ha when that factory clouds, kids worked at the potato dhip factory. so when we talk about divestment in the community, we have to look at two things, divestment in jobs, divestment in education and wonder why the violence is so high. [ applause ] so if you re looking at a neighborhood and saying why is the crime rate high, why is this happening but then you see no jobs, no education but barely holding on and we talk about food justice as well. all of those are major components that come into the violence that happens here.