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Show Transcript DIFFERENCE HERE IN LOUISVILLE. RIGHT NOW I WOULD LIKE TO. PROVIDE A SMALL DONATION TO NO MORE RED DOTS IT’S THE FIRST OF MANY CHECKS TO FUND. PEACE 5,000 DOLLARS ON SATURDAY LOCAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION GROUP. NO MORE RED DOTS WAS GIVEN THE HELPING HAND NEEDED TO CONTINUE WORKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE A LITTLE BIT IS A LOT WHEN WHEN FOLKS SHOW TODAY CARED THEN OTHER PEOPLE START TO SHOW THE DAYCARE THE DONATION MARKS THE BEGINNING OF CITIES UNITED’S CROSS COUNTRY SUMMIT WHERE THE ORGANIZATION WILL TRAVEL TO CITIES ALL OVER THE AS THAT HAVE BEEN CRITICALLY IMPACTED BY AN UPTICK IN VIOLENCE LEADERS PLAN TO USE THE TIME TO URGE MAYORS TO USE THEIR PORTION OF AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN DOLLARS TO BETTER FUND VIOLENCE PREVENTION ORGANIZATIONS IN THEIR AREA. WE HAVE AN OPPOR
Activists said possible topics for the conversation include police brutality, a marker denoting the protest movement, qualified immunity and local reparations.
Over the years, Derby has helped me create lasting memories.
My first Derby was in 1997. An excited college freshman-to-be, I traveled to the city with my girlfriends and had a ball cruisin’ down West Broadway. I will never forget squatting in an alley somewhere in Shawnee to relieve my bladder. Mama still has the art I bought her from Screaming Eagles.
When my sister returned to the city from Hawaii, Derby was one way she reconnected with the city. I opened up my backyard to friends and family for music and food for four straight days! I purchased the kids a ride in the Pegasus Parade, thanks to the Louisville Urban League’s silent auction. It was an upgrade from the years of early mornings watching the hot air balloons take off from Bowman Field when they were toddlers.
Greg Fischer, Louisville mayor
“George Floyd’s death, along with the tragic death of Breonna Taylor in our own city, rightfully created a long-overdue national reckoning on issues of race and policing. I hope today’s just verdict brings some measure of accountability, and a sense of peace and hope to our country, especially to Black Americans here and across the country who have experienced generations of trauma caused by an inequitable justice system. It’s well past time for America to make good on years of unfulfilled promises for truly reimagining public safety and addressing racial inequities in all the systems meant to serve and protect all people, especially communities of color.”