re: BRAVE contracts tied to mayor's administration suspended

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he knew about Slim's contract and that it makes sense for someone like that to work for programs like BRAVE.

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Talk 107.3: This controversy started with the Arthur Reed contract. But if you’re trying to reach troubled youth, isn’t that the kind of person you want talking to them?

HM: That type of person, like him, he has delivered a message. I’ve seen him on all different types of levels: as a defendant, as a father of a kid that’s struggling, when his brother was killed earlier this year in February, at all the different homicide scenes, and then I heard and saw what he said at council, which was just outrageous ... But look, if I walk through the neighborhood and ask these kids to put their guns down, I would either get shot or get run out of the neighborhood. They don’t listen to me, they don’t listen to the chief ... but they would listen to someone who’s been around, been a gang member, went to jail, came out, but they have to have the right message. The message has to be respect, put the guns down, don’t wind up like I was...and change your ways. So yeah, those people are effective but they’re dangerous because they are in that position. Oftentimes, someone will go around the police’s back and say bad things, and others will get arrested again. So they are dangerous.

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