that tremain lee was just reporting on were. so now that night has fallen and we re within an hour of the curfew, there are still a lot of people on the street, a lot of people still out here expressing their views about what happened. i actually met a young lady who s also named april, coincidentally enough. i want to bring her over. we were talking earlier about seeing this city in this state and so much attention on it. what do you expect to happen when the attention goes away? what is the city like when we re not here? i expect it to be the great city that it is. i expect our communities to pull together even more, to build them up, to repair what was broken, to fix these policies in place that don t protect us, that don t reach out to us. we are the city. the youth is the city and the future. and hopefully all of you guys bringing attention to this issue will make those changes. reporter: what do you want city leaders to do differently?
people on the street, a lot of people still out here expressing their views about what happened. i actually met a young lady who s also named april, coincidentally enough. i want to bring her over. we were talking earlier about seeing this city in this state and so much attention on it. what do you expect to happen when the attention goes away? what is the city like when we re not here? i expect it to be the great city that it is. i expect our communities to pull together even more, to build them up, to repair what was broken, to fix these policies in place that don t protect us, that don t reach out to us. we are the city. the youth is the city and the future. and hopefully all of you guys bringing attention to this issue will make those changes. reporter: what do you want city leaders to do differently? there s ban lot of criticism of major stephanie rawlings-blake for using the term thug. she s had to walk back some information like the idea it was going to be some sort of rel
do you have a relationship with the governor? have you spoke tonight governor? has he reached out to you, has he apologized? no. have you talked about what happened in your city? no, no, the governor hasn t reached out to me. again, i m not on his radar, why would he? i ve met him several times, i ve broken bread with him several times. i think his recollection of me is better than he s saying. don t reach out for me, don t do me any favors, don t reach out to me, you need to reach out to the families who were waiting for ambulances taking three times longer to get there. you need to reach out to the thousands of families who couldn t get their kids to school. and you need to reach out to my chief fiscal officer so we could get a reimbursement check from trenton, that s what we need to do.
with the governor? have you spoke tonight governor? has he reached out to you, has he apologized? no. have you talked about what happened in your city? no, no, the governor hasn t reached out to me. again, i m not on his radar, why would he? i ve met him several times, i ve broken bread with him several times. i think his recollection of me is better than he s saying. don t reach out for me, don t do me any favors, don t reach out to me, you need to reach out to the families who were waiting for ambulances taking three times longer to get there. you need to reach out to the thousands of families who couldn t get their kids to school. and you need to reach out to my chief fiscal officer so we could get a reimbursement check from trenton, that s what we need to do. don t apologize to me, i don t
you know, there are different dimensions here. if you didn t know, you allowed folks to be put into positions that who are completely reckless and venomous and put a lot of people in harm s way so you d have to question the judgment of those decisions, number one. two, what impact it would have, i don t think i m smart enough to reach that conclusion and i don t want to speculate about it. it can t be good. it certainly can t be good. it s probably something the governor wants to go away even more than i do. my problem is what happens when it goes away to my community. that s my problem. i am very, very fearful of ramifications in the future, quite frankly. what can he do to fix this? i ll tell you, what can he do? again, you have to reach out to the folks who were impacted. don t reach out to me. if you haven t in the last four months don t do it now.