go. police releasing the mug shot of the suspect charged in the shooting of a black teenager in kansas city. 16 year old ralph yara will bring the wrong doorbell while he was trying to pick up his siblings. last week , he was shot two times. 84 year old andrew lester is charged with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action. thank you so much for joining us. i ll be back here tomorrow night, cnn tonight with alison camerata starts now. hey, alison. great to see you and we ll be talking about that case, of course, as well. good evening, everyone. i m alyson camerota. welcome to cnn tonight that 84 year old man in kansas city was charged this evening with shooting 16 year old ralph ural in the head. this was last week after you re all apparently rang the wrong doorbell. is this a valid case of stand your ground law, or is this the law of the instrument? which says when all you have is a hammer? you treat every problem like a nail. here. the instrument is a gun. our
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these kids really great free skating. i mean, there are you know there are a lot of things to give teenagers to do that are not like, you know, teenagers want to get together. they want to hang i mean, i m just saying, i hear you. and that s what mayor elect brandon johnson is saying. i ll read it to everybody. this is his plan for safety at public safety and reform act of one day plan to get smart and serious about crime, invest in youth and communities expand support for victims and survivors. mental health addiction care housing for the un house strengthened police accountability here s for investing in youth in particular youth and communities, um, double the summer youth jobs to more than 60,000 target, the most at risk youth. great build a comprehensive trauma response network. fantastic. put youth on the path to prosperity with career and technical education. who can argue with that address the crisis of nearly 20,000 on housed cps students and, um, support the peace book ordina
criminals to ensure that the real violent crime is handled. so, new yorkers want that, but they also want us to take a look at the root of the problem, and that s poverty. summer youth jobs. summer is coming right now. we ought to have our young people working and doing positive things. the mayor is pushing for that. we re pushing for that in washington. these are all efforts to really bring down crime. i want people that don t live in new york to get a sense of what s happening here in the city when we talk about increase in crime. it s happening in major cities across the board, crime is up, especially post-pandemic but when you re looking at new york numbers, let s put up some of these numbers. 75% increase this transit crimes in january. that s insane. 139% increase since 2019 of people carrying knives on the transit system. and that s, by the way, just what s happening underground. weaver not talking about what s happening aboveground as well. you got a new administration here.