re: 'It's gotten worse': New Orleans East demands answers after shooting leaves 9 hurt

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“I tried to give the community something positive,” organizer Leo Bryant told WDSU. “I feel like they let me down.”

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Bryant held the outside his storefront, Da Perfect Spot, and marketed it toward teenagers.

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“Some of this stuff ought to be addressed through reaching out to law enforcement rather than you trying to take justice into your own hands, which is not ever justice at all,” Foy said.

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And while some neighbors paint parties like Bryant’s as too loud and too late at night – with partiers too young – he hopes to host another one when tensions settle.

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