One dollar. I really don't know what's gonna happen next. Hey girl, what is poppin'? We'll come back to another vlog if you're new here. Actually, this time you're not a vlog. Scratch that. This is me livin' off one dollar for one day, livin' in Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to Atlanta where the play is played. Where you can be rich and famous, but still be broke. Okay! In Atlanta, Georgia, nobody has a nine to five. Everybody's rich. Stop it. Get some help. Okay, everybody's celebrities. Everybody wants to be main character here, okay? So you can definitely finish your way in Atlanta, Georgia. Okay, and that's what we're about to do today. High energy, high vibrations, okay? I don't know how I'm gonna survive because Atlanta is expensive, but there's waves around livin' here. I'm just gonna get done up. Q, I'm very hungry.  I don't know how it is gonna go. But first things first, I wanna get a little Q.  But today I'm gonna depend on myself. Okay, normally on a daily basis, I don't like to be around people, so. Hmm. I'm hungry, but y'all don't care. That's not what you're here for. I'm just gonna do my makeup really quick. Dress is, it's actually giving me very much anxiety that I'm gonna be doing this in this big city. If you aren't new to my channel, you've seen me do this in Wisconsin. I just really wanna take a different approach to things because there's obviously a lot more options out here in Atlanta to go to. And I don't wanna cheat. I'm not a cheater. So I'm trying to think of ways on where I can finesse out here in these Atlanta streets. Shake with your mama, Gabriel. The girls out here in the A do it every day, girl. Literally don't feel bad about it. Do what you gotta do, okay? And that's what I'm about to do today. Do what I gotta do to survive. Eh, she didn't got serious, man. I went on my handy-dandy MacBook Pro and I searched up how to get free food in Atlanta, Georgia. Like what are the food deals? And y'all know it's December, so a lot of these food companies are giving back. So what we found, girl, is we found a little Dunkin' Donuts. They're giving out 12 free donuts every single day, but I'm on a healthy lifestyle, okay? I want coffee or something. Maybe a little hash brown, because their hash browns are really good. But I don't go to Dunkin' Donuts often. I'm a Starbucks girl, but I haven't had Starbucks anyways. I was looking on Twitter and all the girlies are saying that Dunkin' is better to start, but I might as well go there. We gon' try. They do have a rewards program that you have to download the app. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm not gonna do it yet until I get in a car, so we can do it together. I really just wanna say it's my birthday, so. And I really wanna eat good today, so hopefully God is on my side. No, God is gonna be on my side today. I gotta make sure the lips are lipping today. We gotta talk that finesse. Imagine if I just met somebody to finance my whole day today. What do you mean by that? Best of luck to me. If God wants to drop somebody in my life to financially help me survive, I'm not gonna ignore what God sends me. Okay? So that's pretty much it.  I want it now. So I'm on my way to Dunkin' right now, but I did. Hello? Yeah, I'll keep my dollar. Here you go. Thank you. So I had just broke up five to survive off my dollar for the day. I just gave it to her. It's a lot of homeless people out here in Atlanta, y'all. They be everywhere. So every chance I get when I have money on me, like it can be any amount I like to give it away. Cause I really don't, I rarely have money on me. But anyways, we're on our way to Dunkin'. So I'm starving. I'm really on the verge of having an attitude with somebody. I'm really on the verge of being hangry. Like I was just on the phone, my mom, I'm like, mom, please, please, please, please. I'll call you later. So hopefully this will work. Sometimes when I drink coffee, that's kind of like a meal replacement for me. We don't care.  But I'm trying to hurry up cause I have an appointment to go to. And that is something I don't have to pay for. Because it's like a IOU type of thing. Thank God there's a Dunkin' right here. Next door. Oh, it's right there. Oh, we missed it. I got to start around. We made it over here.  And then also my handy-dandy TikTok, I came across an ad, y'all. TikTok been running Dunkin' Donuts ads. So I was like, oh, this is really meant for me. I screen shot of it. Get a medium iced coffee through the Dunkin' Donuts reward using cold YLOS X Dunkin'. I guess they're a band or something. Kudos to them. I'm definitely going to be using their code. You got a dollar in your pocket? A 20 in your wallet. There is the tax. I want a free iced coffee with any purchase but I'm not getting that thing. This is a lot harder than that. I thought it was going to be... Dunkin' Donuts got some good cheap deals. It's a $2 breakfast sandwich with a drink purchase. It also has a free avocado toast with a drink purchase. I think I'm just going to try to work my finesse right now. So that YLOS band, I guess it's expired. I listened to a band and I seen on their TikTok that they're offering a free medium iced coffee and I was trying to use it and it's not letting me. Am I able to just use it in person? Cause I love that band. I actually, I just want coffee. I really don't want anything extra. They're going to be like, that was six days ago. Dunkin' Donuts? Hi, so I was trying to make a purchase on my rewards app because there's a YLOS band that I listened to and they had an ad running saying that I can get a free iced medium coffee for free, but it's not letting me do it on the ad. So I was just wondering if I can get it in person. Okay, so I have to drive up to the window right now or can I place the order? I can take your order here. Oh, okay. Right here or to the window? To the window. Okay, here I come. I'm like, I just want a regular iced medium coffee. Oh my God, I kid. Yeah. So this was the author. It's on their TikTok. I don't know if you, and then it says you can get a free iced coffee through the Dunkin' Rewards app. It says to use the code. You see the code? No, I did. It won't let me. That wasn't what I was looking for, man. Keep it all the way at the hour with you. Oh, 40% okay. Thank you. I really didn't want to give up my dollar just yet, but it's okay. It's okay, because I'm power, I'm unique, okay? You can keep, actually, you can put the change in a tip thing. Oh, thanks. What kind of munch can do one? We have chocolate, glaze, blueberry, and powdered. You can do glaze. Glaze? Mm-hmm. Thank you. I got something. But she was like, yeah, just go on the app and you can get a free thing. She was like, it can be anything. Like I'll do a munchkin for you. And a munchkin, I guess, is like 50 cents, I guess. I don't know. But I'm just happy to have a little coffee or something because I'm, I need it, okay? And a little, a little glaze, one glazed donut won't hurt me. I was a little confused, but like I said, when I was looking on the app, they have a lot of good things. Thank you, thank you. Just keep checking your rewards section. They have a lot of rewards for you. Yeah, I've seen that. I was like, wow. Yeah. And I've seen all of December, y'all giving a free donut with any purchase. Yeah, you have that reward too. Mm-hmm. I might use it tomorrow. Thank you. But yeah, y'all, oh, we got it. She was really nice, so she was really a sweetie. But yeah, I want to taste this. I haven't had Dunkin' Donuts coffee in so long and I got sugar-free options. I'm going to need this to get through this to get through this day because a day of finance is not easy. I don't know why that encounter just made me really nervous, but I'm happy I got my coffee. One little munchkin, one lit munchkin. So make sure you download the Dunkin' app so you can get a free cold brew.  If you don't really care about the donut, who cares? This is probably the cheapest thing that they offer. And besides from Starbucks, Starbucks don't offer nothing under $3 as far as like a pastry. So Dunkin' Donuts is coming clutch. Ooh, I should have added blueberry glaze, but it's okay. But let's try this. It's not fresh. Oh, damn. I'm sorry. Like I said before, I'm going to my lash appointment. And like I said, I'm not spending any money. It's kind of like a IOU type of thing going on. But normally I do pay on a regular basis, but today I don't have to. Thank God, cause we livin' off a dollar. And I'm on a budget. For the end of the month, baby, like this is holiday, okay? I gotta spend my money on other people and not myself. I gotta have my finances low. So, but anywho, my lash check just pulled up. So I'm about to walk in here. And then I'm probably be hungry after that cause this is going to be a process cause I'm very naked in the lashes area. Then we'll get a snack after before we eat dinner. I don't, I really don't know what's going to happen next, honestly. Two moments later. Hello, we're back. And I got my lashes done. They look really cute. And I did work up an appetite. Wow, I was getting my lashes done. So I kind of want a snack. So, Zach's Bees is a real popular restaurant out here and I really don't go to Zach's Bees. I really don't, I haven't been eating fast food, honestly. And it says on the website, you can get a free Zach snack. If you download the app, it's right there. Free. I want something like small for right now until I get ready for dinner time. And y'all, my last check, she was like, I need to go to the mall. I was like, oh, perfect. Cause I need to scope out who finna pay for my dinner tonight. What do you mean by that? Okay, y'all. So I'm currently placing my order on Zach's Bees. So make sure y'all, I know y'all girls in Atlanta. So make sure y'all download the app and get y'all y'all free big Zach's snack meal. Okay. And yeah, you get the whole thing, baby. Fries, toast, chicken tender. It's a chicken salad. It's like, you get it all. So yeah, I'm going to click redeem. Select reward, select rewarding cart, finalize. Yes, periods.  Get it free foods. Keep changing email.  Reward apply. Let's do the chicken dance. Let's do the chicken dance.  Check out, check out a zero balance. Okay, so all I have to do is just go pick it up and they'll do a curbside. Okay, we'll see you soon. So yeah, a little grullies. Get y'all y'all free snack packs, okay?  I'm so excited. So let's go to Zach's Bees. Ah! Okay. I actually placed an app order. And I don't, where do I park? Or do I come get it inside? You can come inside. Come inside? Okay. Yes, so what's the name of the app ready for you? Kyra, K-I-R-A-H. You said Kyra? Yes. Kyra? Mm-hmm. Okay, so I'm coming in. I actually hate any type of form of human contact. So, I mean, this is clutch. Okay, this is clutch. Let's go. Let's eat. Let's eat. Let's eat all of this. There's a lot of hummus before. Wow. That was actually filling for a snack, but I didn't eat it all. I only ate one chicken tender. There's a lot of fries though. There's a lot of hummus people out here. And I don't like to let my leftovers go to waste.  But I like to have them like, not like scrappy. You know what I'm saying?  I'm gonna be on my way to meet my last tech at the mall like I said, cause she has to get something. So I was like, yeah, let's, let's go to the mall. And the booty is bootying. So let's see. I really want to eat good for dinner tonight. That's why I was like, no, cause literally I haven't ate all day for real. Just that little donut in this coffee.  But I know if I were to eat all that, I would have been full. Like I would have been done for the day. I don't want to stop there. You know? I feel like I feel really good about today. So I really want to eat good tonight. So it's either gonna be trying to find that some stuff or it's gonna be something. It's gonna be something about to go down. But anyways, I'm meeting her at Linux right now. So I'm having so much fun. But like I said, y'all better download the app. Get a whole meal for free, literally.  You get a whole meal, okay? And you get to choose what you want on the meal, your side, anything.  Geez. I just put up to the mob. Yeah, I'm just gonna do a lip touch up. Hopefully we get lucky in here. No, we are gonna get lucky in here. It's the holidays and there's a lot of people here. But I really don't like being social with dudes I don't really like. And it's probably somebody out here really going to the mall trying to find that some of the dudes.  I gotta make sure my lips look good. Thank God I got my lashes on. She looking cute with the Charlotte Tilbury. So I'm about to meet my friend. We looking cute. Hopefully we get a little lucky. Cause I really want some house tonight. So it's either plan A or plan B, but hopefully plan A works. So let's get up in here and wish me luck. Y'all, Lenny's got the thirstiest niggas.  All right, let's go. Okay, y'all. We are actually back home because my battery died. And yeah, there was no, like, there's no way I was going in a mall without my camera. So now we gotta do plan B. They're closing soon. So I'm gonna try one of my favorite restaurants out here and see if I, I didn't know they closed at 10 o'clock. So I'm just gonna call and see. So this is an oldie but goodie trick. All you need to do is call a restaurant and be like, um, you guys mess up my order from previously and you guys said I can come in, get my meal rembursts back to me. So I'm gonna see if they can, but if they can't, but I don't know. I'm scared. Hunter, oh my God. What else restaurant do I like here? I'm gonna do Nogu, no, this way. Dang, I can't believe stuff is gonna close. I really want us to go there. Let me just try it one more time. What other restaurant do I like to go sit at? I really want to be wine-denigned. Dang, let me just see restaurants near me. Cause if anything, I could really try Chick-fil-A, but I tried Chick-fil-A last time. And like I said, I really want to just sit down somewhere and eat. I should try the bonds. Let me try them. They're a little strict though, but let's see. Why is nobody answering? Like, oh, I should try SDK. So I placed the order over the weekend and y'all forgot to put my salmon over my, my blackened salmon on my pasta. And I was supposed to come back and grab another order of that because I called back and let y'all know and y'all said y'all write my name down so I can get that reimbursed. I literally forgot, but I come there all the time. Yes, they thought I ordered it with no salmon. Okay, give me one moment, okay? Oh my God, y'all, I'm so nervous, y'all. My stomach is like, I have anxiety. I don't know why. Like the worst they can say is no. If anything happened, if anything, I can ask this guy to take me cause he is always on my line, but I really don't feel like sitting on in people's faces. I don't feel like, you know, I really just don't. And I don't feel like sitting down, socializing. It's just too much. But Devon's does have hookah. I can be entertained with hookah and a little drink in my pasta. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know what they're gonna say. I'm nervous. Hello? Hello? Hello, yes ma'am. Yes, yes. And they said I could come in and just get that remade. I had made an online order and I ordered the pasta with the blackened salmon, but there was no blackened salmon when I got it. It was only pasta. Yes, can I just come in? It's just me. Can I just come in there and have it? Okay, okay. I'll be there in a second.  Devon's is really not like, they're not really like that. But thank God because house was closing and that's really like the only thing that's open late. And it's also a weekday. So a lot of things stay open later on the weekend. So yeah, but the blackened salmon from Devon's is so good. I actually haven't had it in a minute. So maybe it's meant for me, okay?  And we're gonna go there. So yeah, I'm excited and I got a hookah note. But I don't know. Maybe I might need somebody there. I don't know.  Two moments later. So y'all, I just changed into this cute little two piece from my outfit online. And then I'm just about to touch up my makeup really quick because you just never know who you're gonna see. Just touch up my lips and that's about it. And I might have one drink tonight if it allows me because I do have to get up early. I just feel so happy today. I feel so blessed. No, like happy vibes. I'm just happy. Maybe to find a lip product that's like 24 hours moisturizing because I don't know why my lips have been getting so dry lately. Like extra dry like ASAP and it's annoying. And then I'm just gonna add this perfume. So this is the fits. I just threw in the same Jackie and then I just am carrying this on my bag. So yeah, let's go. I enjoyed the night for free. That's best. Anyway, so I just placed on order. Fern just hit me up. She's with a couple of her friends. So we're gonna go to Magic City Royal. And Magic is really strict. And I think I can't bring my camera so I'm just gonna vlog off my phone. And the finesse, like you just gotta have, it just gotta be, it don't even matter. You just gotta know people. I gotta invite it out. I already know I'm not spending nothing there. Okay, literally. So I'm just gonna vlog off my phone and I'm just gonna wear the same outfit I've been wearing and put my sneakers back on and stuff. So the night is still young. So we are going to live, okay? Today was such an exciting day. I guess I'll see y'all on my iPhone because it's time to get lit. Okay. You gotta reach me. You gotta reach me, baby. You gotta reach me, baby. You gotta reach me. You gotta reach me. You gotta reach me. You gotta reach me. You gotta reach me. You gotta reach me. I'm good here. Y'all, I just got home. It's five. It's 25 a.m. Y'all, it was lit tonight. We literally went to Magic City. Girl, why did they break out in a fight? The stripper was trying to, you know, stripper girls be trying to get money, okay? They don't care what they gotta do. They gonna get that money, baby, okay? And then we went to OPM. I was up. I'm still up. I didn't, I didn't even wanna go to my workout, but I'm gonna fight. But anyways, that brings us to the end of this video. I hope you guys enjoyed. Do not forget to like, comment, and subscribe to my channel. I love y'all so freaking much. And we are gonna be doing a giveaway of a gift card of your choice.  Make sure you're subscribed to my YouTube channel. Make sure you're following me on Instagram. And yeah, I love y'all so much. And this was so much fun living free. I can't wait to do it again and again and again and again, okay? 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Where's Michael? Thank you. Good morning. This important announcement of going after those gun manufacturers that produce ghost guns. And even before saying that, I've known A.G. James for a little over 30-something years. And we have just worked together on so many different projects. And New York is a safer place by having an A.G. that is just focused on the quality of our office. And I just wanted to just personally thank her for the way she uses her office to go after everything from those lawmakers that are doing incorrect things to those who are selling opioid drugs, who are going into our businesses and using organized crime to steal in the announcement today. And I value your friendship, A.G. I value your office and what you're doing. And so I'm joined today with the family members and professionals that are saying to New Yorkers, 8.8 million New Yorkers, that we are going to fight against the surge of gun violence, particularly today's announcement on gun violence. We want to halt the rapidly escalating danger of illegal ghost guns. Ghost guns are the untraceable firearms that are assembled from parts and kits that are sold online. This morning, New York City filed a lawsuit against five online gun retailers that are illegally selling and delivering ghost guns components to addresses here in this city. With just a few clicks and a credit card, undercover investigators in the sheriff's office and the sheriff is here with us today were able to order the components and use them to assemble guns that are illegal under city and state law. Some of the guns components, the sheriffs, recovered are right here on display. If you look at this, particularly these extended magazines that allow you to really even circumvent the laws we put in place here in our state. As you can see, many of them are made of polymere plastic with metal slides. And the danger of the plastics is that many of the plastics disassembled won't be detected by metal detectors. And if we continue this evolution, I'm sure you're going to find a time when even the slides would no longer be metal. That's why we must meet this head on. The guns are typically partially assembled when shipped and have no serial numbers or other traceable parts of the guns. The recipient of these components then has a few final pieces with easily available tools to create fully functional and untraceable firearms. Many have high capacity magazines that turn a basic plastic item into the equivalent of an assault weapon capable of firing multiple shots. And other kits are available to assemble actual semi-automatics like the AK-47 that was used in Buffalo and Uvalde. These are dangerous weapons. We should not think these are just kits used for hobbyists. They're being used by murderers. All of them are illegal. Think about it. No matter where you live, no matter where you are, you can order one of these weapons and use it for whatever issues that you are attempting to resolve by using violence. High capacity weapons can be ordered as if they were pre-assembled cabinets that just need the doors attached. These weapons, these ghost guns, as we call them, have been turning up all over our city. These weapons have been at crime scenes and in the hands of gang members. The NYPD has already seized 180 ghost guns this year alone, up to 181% increase that we have witnessed. They have killed innocent New Yorkers, including our baby. Every time I think about the day we got the notification, I had to tell her mom, Angelie's mom, who was caught in the crossfire. And just to have her here today, painful moment that she's turned that pain into purpose. That gun is here on display today. You never forget about it. Angelie's parents are the symbol of the strength that too many parents are having to display.  He was injured in the same shooting which killed Angelie. And I want to thank them both for being a symbol of our strength. And sadly, ghost guns are too common. And we saw a young man assassinated with a ghost gun at a bodega in the Bronx after an argument with a shooter. And a ghost gun used in the shooting of multiple patrons at a nightclub in Inwood. Today, we are saying not in our city. And we will lead the nation in fighting against these guns. We are not going to let gun companies turn New York into a city of male-ordered murder. Whether they are hidden in the trunks of cars or in parks in a plain brown box, they are illegal and we will fight against it. We will take every lawful action possible to stop gun retailers from profiting over public safety. We're asking the court to issue a preliminary injunction ordering the defendants to immediately stop sending ghost guns into New York City. We need an immediate action. Every day a new gun is shipped here. There's a potential to take an innocent life or main an innocent person. And we say over and over again, the sea of violence is being fed by many rivers. And this river is coming from far away. And the retailers we seek to identify. Arm or Allied, based in Kansas City, Missouri. Rainer Arms, based in North Auburn, Washington. AP Builders, based in Lango, Florida. Rock Slide USA, based in Broadway, North Carolina. And Indy Guns, based in Orlando, Florida. No New York address, but New Yorkers must address the violence that comes from these shipments. These retailers are repeatedly and willfully ignoring the city's restrictions, sending hundreds of illegal packages to New York City addresses, many of which are later recovered by the Roque of the New York City Police Department. And when you look at some of these items in front of us, which was purchased by undercover sheriffs, you see the extent of what we are talking about. This is the gun that murdered young Angelie. Look at this gun. You don't see the difference between one that was bought by a gunshot. This one here, I'm sorry, posted on top. You don't see this gun. Don't know the difference from the one that's purchasing a gunshot, or one that is put together, manufactured together. This is the same type of weapon that can take the life of an innocent person. And you look over to the far right, you see some of the guns that the police commissioner and I displayed a few weeks ago. We will not stand by and allow these companies to flout the law and endanger our communities and kill our young people. We will make our voices heard and use the court system to stop this plague on our cities. We will not make the already difficult job of detecting guns by our law enforcement officers to even become more challenging and difficult as they attempt to look at these ghost guns. The lawsuit against these five gun retailers is a message to the rest of them who are selling these guns. If you sell ghost guns in New York, we will come after you. We support the federal government gun legislation that just recently passed, but we need more help from city and state lawmakers to shut down the plastic pipeline. And we have to push back against the activist Supreme Court that is striking down our long-established gun safety laws and making us all less safe. We will do everything in our power to keep New Yorkers safe from gun violence. And now I want to turn it over to who I believe is our partner in this pursuit of my friend and the state's chief law enforcement person, Attorney General Patricia James. I want to thank the mayor for his continued commitment to getting illegal guns off of our streets and for his partnership in this fight and our long relationship as friends. We are here today to announce major action to combat the gun violence crisis that we are seeing, not only in New York, but all across this nation. As cities and states across the country have been devastated by gun violence and legislative inaction, the mayor and I have attended too many funerals. All throughout our public careers, I've held too many mothers and fathers and family members over open caskets. I've had to pray too many times. And prayers and words, just not enough. It requires action. We have stepped up time and time again to hold gun makers accountable and to get these weapons of death off of our streets, especially in the wake of last week's Supreme Court decision on New York's licensing laws. And I look forward and I continue to look forward to Thursday's extraordinary session as they pass responsible regulations here in the state of New York. We are grappling with a public safety crisis that has claimed far too many lives. And increasingly, ghost guns are to blame for the destruction and the carnage and the harm. So today, the Office of Attorney General, we are filing a lawsuit against 10 companies that have been illegally selling ghost guns into New York. These 10 out-of-state companies have sold tens of thousands of illegal ghost guns, gun parts to New Yorkers, parts that have been easily converted to working guns that have actually claimed lives. They sell ghost gun pieces or kits directly to consumers without a background check and without any federally required record of the sale. In fact, in many cases, they have sold to consumers who otherwise would not be legally required or legally allowed to purchase firearms from a licensed retailer. And let me just tell you how it works. Anyone, anyone can buy a ghost gun kit or part from these companies for between $150 and $200. These kits arrive at your front door with instructions for the simple changes that need to be made, milling down a small amount of plastic at the top of the frame, drilling three small holes into the side. Some companies even include the drill bits in their kits. Often step-by-step videos are included to show you how to convert these guns. And even they offer a live helpline that customers can call. In the words of defendant 80% arms, this process of converting these receivers or framers into fully operable and untraceable firearms is quote, ridiculously easy, unquote. That simple process to assemble and the fact that the unfinished frames and receivers evade public safety measures is one of the main marketing and selling points that the company uses. 80% arms writes on its website, quote.  It ships right to your door, unquote. What is an FFL? The FFL is a federal firearms license, which requires by law that the Federal Licensing Center conduct background checks. And a federal firearm license must have an FFL to sell or ship guns, so this is a clear violation of federal law. Another distributor, Glock Store, touts on its website, quote. You can build a completely legal handgun without any government's oversight, aka interference, no fuss, no muss, no registration, no records, unquote. These non-existent oversight of the sale of these products that can cause real harm and has caused real harm has resulted in the death of individuals here in New York. Some ghost guns from these defendants have been linked to shootings and murders in New York City. In May 2020, distributor Bromnells sold and shipped ghost gun products to a convicted criminal and repeat customer. Let me say that again. A convicted criminal and a repeat customer who was legally ineligible to own or operate a firearm. That same month, that customer allegedly used a ghost gun in a triple shooting that killed one person and injured two others in the Bronx. Another individual named Edison Cruz received at least seven packages from Bromnells, the defendant, at an address in the Bronx between 2020 and 2022. And we in the Office of the Attorney General have reason to believe that those packages included unfinished frames or receivers and or the parts to make into ghost guns. Mr. Cruz was not legally permitted to own a firearm. He was previously arrested multiple times on violent charges. In May of 2022, Mr. Cruz was arrested for a triple shooting in the Bronx that left one person dead and two others hospitalized. He used a ghost gun in that shooting. And in the words of the New York Post, Mr. Cruz was, quote, unquote, a nut for illegal ghost guns, unquote, from the New York Post.  Law enforcement in Buffalo said that they sell for as much as $2,000 on the street. And these ghost gun parts only exist to be converted into operable dangerous firearms. And these companies only exist to provide these weapons to individuals who are otherwise ineligible to own a gun or who basically want to evade any sort of basic federal or state controls. And as we've seen, the consequences are absolutely dire, heartbreaking. And that's why we're here today. We're cracking down on these egregious and flagrant violations of the law where companies put profit over people. And for the first time, we are using the state's public nuisance law to sue these companies. These companies have advertised they've sold and they've shipped these ghost guns parts to New Yorkers. And these actions have clearly and repeatedly endangered the health and safety of our communities, creating a public nuisance. We are suing them under a law that is unique to the Office of Attorney General because they engaged in repeated and persistent illegal conduct knowingly and repeatedly selling these pieces, tens of thousands of them into New York state, even though it's illegal to do so. And we are bringing several other claims as well to officially ban these businesses, ban them from selling or shipping these illegal products to New York. We are seeking restitution and damages and discouragement for the widespread harm that they have caused. We would like to create an abatement fund similar to what we did in our opioid litigation, an abatement fund to eliminate the public nuisance. They are responsible for creating, exasperating, and perpetuating, and also to assist in addressing gun violence in New York state. Gun violence is impacting New Yorkers every day. Claims lives and ghost guns don't discriminate. Killing young, old, black, white, Asian, Latino. It's an equal opportunity, death, weapon, stealing opportunity, stealing dreams, ripping families apart, and causing widespread fear in New York state. And these companies have greatly contributed to the crisis and their products have claimed many lives and perhaps most disturbing. They are knowingly and intentionally selling these weapons to anyone and everyone without care. But we are committed to combating this violence and we will continue to do so. And I will do so as the Attorney General of the great state of New York and I will do everything in my power to go after those who endanger children and senior citizens and New Yorkers. We are here because a ghost gun stole the life of a beautiful 16-year-old girl, Angela Yambo. She was killed by a ghost gun in April when she was walking home from school.  But I want her to know that we are doing this in honor of her daughter. Isaiah was also shot in the leg. He's a 17-year-old honor student. And thankfully, he is still with us. His mom is here today. Raven Scott and you will also hear from her. And the mayor and I and others all across the state of New York will continue to work tirelessly to go after these companies because of the pain they have caused so many families like theirs. We will not let another child be killed by these weapons without action. Not now, not ever. Thank you. And now we'd like to turn to Judge Sylvia Hines, Radix, the head of Corporation Council in the city of New York. Good morning and thank you, Attorney General James, for that introduction. To Mayor Adams, to Attorney General James, to Commissioner Sewell, Sheriff Miranda, and the multi-governmental team who are here gathered, and to the mothers who have been impacted by this gun violence. And I also'd like to thank the Manhattan Community College for allowing us to hold this press conference here today. New York City is experiencing an increasing number of illegal, untraceable ghost guns that have ended in the hands of criminals. The results are tragic. They're shooting and the death of children and they're bloodshed in our communities. Multiple agencies and officials who are here are collaborating to eradicate this problem. You've seen, and will see, the hard-working, meticulous efforts of the NYPD, the Sheriff's Office, the District Attorney's Office, and the Office of the Attorney General, all of whom are working closely with us. Today, the state announced its effort to address the issue statewide. The city of New York is also addressing this issue with a civil suit office-owned to protect New York City. The Office of the Corporation Council, my office, today filed a civil lawsuit against five online retailers of ghost guns who continue to sell into New York City more than two years after the city council passed a law prohibiting such sale. These defendants are violating the city's administrative code with their deliveries of these guns. They are knowingly or recklessly creating and contributing to what is known in legal terms as a public nuisance. This nuisance comes about by selling and shipping prohibited guns into the city. These retailers have created a serious risk to New Yorkers and other members of the public by continuing to sell into our city. And this information from the Sheriff's Office, who investigated this, indicates that this is continuing. As Corporation Council of the City of New York, I am exercising the authority explicitly given to me under the New York State General Business Law to sue and remedy the danger these defendants are posing to the public's health and safety. This lawsuit is targeting the retailers who are currently selling in the city to residents of the city of New York. And we will ask the court for an order to immediately bar them from this illegal practice. We will also ask the court to direct these sellers to help us mitigate the damages and the danger they have caused by providing a list of the addresses of those who have received ghost guns. Be assured, the City of New York will use every legal tool available to hold these retailers fully accountable under the law. The city seeks relief in joining each defendant from selling, shipping, distributing, delivering, or otherwise supplying un-serialized, unfinished frames or receivers to a New York City address or person or entity that the defendant knows or should have known is in violation of our law, ordering each defendant to abate the nuisance. Ghost guns endanger lives.  The Mayor, the City Council, the Attorney General, the Sheriff's Office, and the Police Department, and the District Attorneys in conjunction with the Corporation Council are all committed to working diligently and collaboratively to protect the citizens of this great city. I will now introduce Sheriff Antony Miranda. Good morning. I want to start by thanking the Mayor, the Attorney General, and Judge, thank you for introducing me. We want to thank all of our partners, especially the New York City Police Department and the Law Department. Working in collaboration with our fellow law enforcement colleagues, the Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Investigation investigated in online sales into New York of ghost gun components needed to complete ghosts on the assembly. The components included unfinished frames, also referred to as 80% framers and receivers, and other parts which do not have numbers and are untraceable. All illegal weapons are a danger. Ghost guns are particularly dangerous because they are untraceable and unable to have a follow-up investigation. By simply going online using a credit card, officers were able to purchase ghost gun components and have them shipped into New York City. Officers used fictitious IDs, fake bank accounts, Manhattan and mailing address. The investigation was conducted over two months, starting from April to present and will be ongoing. Undercover officers contacted 18 retailers for ghost gun components. Some retailers complied, were compliant with the law, and others simply said they were out of stock. No inventory was available to send to New York. Officers received parts from five retailers consisting of all the components necessary to assemble a firearm. One weapon had a threaded barrel, commonly used for suppression devices. And that's this weapon right here. No legitimate reason to have a threaded barrel in front of a gun except to put a suppressor on that. Three came with high capacity magazines, 17, 24, and 32 rounds. These are meant to do damage. These are meant to hurt our community. The weapons was fully assembled with common household tools in about 90 minutes and were successfully fired at the range. An undercover investigator was not required to produce identification, no proof of age, and no background check whatsoever. The website selling these dangerous components touted how fun it would be to build a custom AR and then come for the privacy of your own home. Inviting buyers to assemble their own firearms for personal use with nothing simpler than handheld tools. The Sheriff's Office assembled these kids fully functioning guns. Similar components are easily used to assemble semi-automatically assault weapons. Ghost guns sold to New York City have ended up in the hands of convicted felons of a prohibited and unlicensed possessors as well as underage children. The Sheriff's Office will continue to conduct the investigations going forward in partnership with all the agencies you see here. It is important that we are working collaboratively and collectively to ensure that we cover all aspects of the law to prevent these guns from coming into New York City and harming our families and harming our communities. It is a great pleasure to be a part of this partnership that's taking the safety of our city as the most important priority over agency titles and the cooperation is unheard of and we're looking forward to continuing that going forward. And I'd like to take the opportunity to introduce one of our major partners in this fight, the police commissioner, Commissioner Sewell. Good morning, everyone. Thank you once again for being here. The New York City Police Department is proud to stand with our law enforcement partners today as we tackle together this increasing problem. The rise of ghost guns is a disease of what the mayor rightly called a plague that we must stop. This is about reducing the number of victims and making certain we don't hamper the vital efforts of our law enforcement professionals who are saving lives with their work. Flooding our communities with these new largely untraceable firearms makes the job of the NYPD and police departments everywhere much more dangerous. And it will result in more grieving families and more innocent victims senselessly taken like 16-year-old Anjali Yamba or injured like Isaiah. The proliferation of illegal guns in general has long been a public safety threat and now it has a new face. Ghost guns have no serial numbers and owners mainly possess them with no registration, license or permit. NYPD gun arrests are at a 28-year high but we cannot take anything for granted. We need to protect and prevent additional victims. The NYPD seized the city's first ghost gun in 2018. In that year, the total recovered was 17. In 2019, it was 50. By 2020, the number increased to 150. Last year, it was 275. And in just the first half of this year, the NYPD has recovered 180 ghost guns, a more than 181% increase from the 64 ghost gun arrests, excuse me, seizures by this time last year. The problem is obvious and the dangers to the people of New York are clear. I want to thank the New York City Sheriff's Office for their important and valuable work in this investigation, the Attorney General and the Corporate Council for their leadership in holding the online resailers accountable, excuse me, resailers accountable collectively. Our job is to keep New Yorkers safe and we will do everything possible to keep that promise. We make that promise every day to the people we serve. What we do matters. What we do has to save lives and keep New Yorkers safe. Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. And I really want to thank the Sheriff for using his office and the manner that we want to have that partnership and take an initiative in a two month investigation. We want to now bring on the parents of young Angelie and young man Isaiah, young child that was shot. I'd like to both bring them together out of the death of young Angelie. I believe we born the life of a friendship and a pursuit of how we are turning pain into purpose. It's just really significant. You expect your baby to go to school and bring home A's on a report card. You don't expect for police officers to knock on your door and report that they were shot by stray shooting. It's just really hurtful. And the commissioner and I, as we moved across the city and visit the parents who are experiencing this horrific attack on our public safety, that we want to know that let them know we're here for them and we're going to continue our pursuit. Good morning. Good morning, guys. I'm Raven Scott. I'm Yanali Harriquez. I'm Angelie's mom.  Angelie unfairly left this world without saying I love you or goodbye to the loved ones. I still have yet to deal with the loss of my daughter and my shadow heart will never heal and also having to live with her memory. Your company are to blame for selling these guns that took my precious daughter's life only to profit your gain. Angelie brought so much light and love into my life and now forcefully I have to start a new life without my daughter. The family's is lost for words and heartbroken and had to live without affliction forever. Your companies are a fall for the damage because of this lack of background checks, having no permits for no one purchase, a gun or for unethical access of underage teenagers.  I will have to pretend to have Angelie physically here with me on to why we reunite again. I love you, baby. Thank you. Thank you, guys. We want to thank our congressional delegation for passing some important gun reform as it dams one of the river, but we have many more to go. So we want to bring on Congressman Jerry Nadler. Congressman. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. I am proud to stand here today in support of this important lawsuit. Ghost guns are guns, plain and simple, and they are quickly becoming the weapon of choice for violent criminals and gun traffickers. That's because you can buy these deadly weapons without a background check, and they're nearly impossible to trace. The manufacturers who make these ghost guns, knowing full well that they're likely to lead to bloodshed in our communities, must be held accountable. A few weeks ago, I was proud to pass through the House of Representatives comprehensive gun safety legislation that I introduced called the Protecting Our Kids Act. Among other things, the bill included a provision to ensure that ghost guns are subject to all existing federal firearms regulations. Although the Senate bill that President Biden just signed into law was far more modest and didn't, it still represented the most significant gun safety legislation to be enacted in decades. But we cannot stop there. We have watched the tragic loss of too many innocent lives. Just recently, we lost 10 African-Americans in Buffalo targeted because of their race. 19 young students and two teachers in Uvalde, just a few days short of their summer vacations, scores more lost than other mass shootings, too numerous to mention, and over 100 more Americans killed every day in gun violence that never makes the headlines. And I must say that the bill that passed the Senate, unlike the bill that passed the House, did nothing about ghost guns. We have an epidemic of gun violence in this country, and we are the only developed nation with this problem. It's not, as some of our Republican colleagues say, because our population is the most mental ill. It's not because our schools need better doors. It's because our nation is awash in guns. Too many of them in the hands of people who pose a threat to our streets, to our schools, even to our houses of worship.  You get a ghost gun, of course. No background check, no regulations, just a kit you can put together in your living room that's virtually untraceable if used in a crime. The people who make these ghost guns know full well that they're selling deadly weapons to people who cannot legally buy them elsewhere, but they won't let that stand in the way of profit. That's unacceptable. With an out-of-control Supreme Court that has mangled the meaning of the Second Amendment and prevented states like New York from enacting reasonable gun safety measures, I am pleased that New York City is taking action today to keep our streets safe with this important lawsuit. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Congressman. Our final speaker is Nick Spleena from Everytown for Gun Safety. We want to thank them for their work, for so many years addressing this issue and continue to partner with law makers and organizations. Thank you, Mayor. My name's Nick Spleena. I'm Senior Vice President for Law and Policy at Everytown for Gun Safety. We're the nation's largest gun violence prevention organization. We work across the country in every state, but I am a New Yorker raising two kids here. My family's lived in the five boroughs for over 100 years. So when New York leaders like the Mayor and the Attorney General and some of the public servants you see here today are taking bold action to keep us safe, I feel a personal debt of gratitude, so thank you. I also want to thank the survivors that are here today and working through their trauma to deliver a message that I think is very clearly received. We're here today because of one simple general premise. You shouldn't be allowed to get away with breaking the law just because you sell guns or gun kits. That's why New York last year passed its landmark industry accountability law, because for far too long, federal immunity has allowed members of the gun industry to get away with putting our lives in danger through their reckless business practices. Instead of following the law, they've tried to circumvent it, putting their profits over our public safety every step of the way.  As a result of the alleged actions of these suppliers, tens of thousands of untraceable ghost guns made their way into our communities, often directly into the hands of traffickers and criminals. This is adding to the fastest growing gun safety threat in the country, and their dangerous conduct put lives at risk. We won't stand for it, not anymore. Now, let me just say one thing about ghost guns. You all know at this point what they are. The industry likes to say that they're homemade to try to avoid the law. When you go pick up a pie at your local supermarket and heat it up for 15 minutes, maybe throw some vanilla ice cream on top of it, that's not a homemade apple pie, OK? You wouldn't call it a homemade apple pie, would you? And when you order these frames and receivers and kits online with jigs and drill bits, it's not a homemade firearm. It's a firearm delivered to your door. These lawsuits are more, though, than just actions against several ghost gun companies. They serve as a warning to other rogue distributors, manufacturers, and dealers. Continue to flout the law, continue to ignore the practices that will keep us safe. And New York is ready to take you to court for the harm you cause to our communities. I want to note the obvious. As it's been said, we're gathered here in the wake of an incredibly dangerous and incorrect Supreme Court decision in NYSERPA v. Bruin. But we are New Yorkers. We're not going to allow six unelected justices to stop us from keeping our neighborhoods safe. That court may have closed a door, but you'd better believe we're going to use every other door and window we can find. And holding the industry accountable to the New York nuisance law is one of them. So today, Attorney General James and Mayor Adams are taking rogue members of the gun industry to task for their contribution to our gun violence epidemic. Tomorrow, lawmakers in Albany will convene a special session to debate and pass updated laws to keep our public spaces safe. And in the coming days and weeks and months, we'll continue to do everything we can to protect our communities, use every tool at our disposal, and hold accountable the industry that is profiting off of our gun violence epidemic. Thank you.  Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. Open questions in any of the turnies on topics? Nudes are obviously coming and the framework that they have put out saying they are going to have these sensitive places, including mass transit. I'm assuming you've talked to people about that and theories to get your opinion on it as well as considering the concealed carry permitting law or system is now on the forefront of everyone's minds. Curious if you still have or you have a permit for a concealed weapon? Do I have one? Yes, I own three firearms that I had when I retired from the department. I have to get that renewed periodically. And those are some of the things that we're looking at. We're hoping that the state lawmakers would look at. And I secure it as it's supposed to, based on a police department procedures. Concealed permit that you have? As a retired member of the New York City Police Department, you are allowed to have a concealed permit, a carry permit. It's not so much called a conceal. It's a carry permit. As a retired member, if you retire in good standards, if you don't retire in good standards, you are not allowed to do so. Do you carry a weapon with you? No, I don't. Can we get a response just on the Albany framework of the legislation? I'm sorry. Do you want the Albany? We've reviewed the legislation in Albany. We've worked with members of the leaders of both houses, as well as the second floor of the governor's office. And we were in support. The Office of Attorney General is in support of the package of bills. And I don't carry a gun. So about the Supreme Court ruling, I'm wondering if I think this is for the AHA. I don't know. I don't know. Supreme Court ruling, I'm wondering if this is for the AHA. If you could talk about how your lawsuit interacts with that. I mean, for instance, if someone without a criminal record who would pass a background check ordered one of these, would they have to get a conceal permit, a home permit? Like, what, you know, for somebody ordering one, what puts them at legal risk for them to get in? So let me just say that this investigation dates prior to the decision by the United States Supreme Court. We have been looking at individuals online who've been selling ghost guns for some time. And as a result of our investigation, we determined that these individuals were in violation of federal, state, and local law. And so we have filed a separate action based on statues, which are unique to the Office of Attorney General. With respect to the legislation, which is before the two houses in Albany, which will hopefully will be passed tomorrow in extraordinary session, we have reviewed the legislation. We support the legislation. And our lawsuit is intended at the marketing practices of these 10 companies, and also at the fact that they were seeking to evade federal, state, and local law. And we're selling products, selling these firearms to individuals who are not legally allowed to purchase firearms otherwise, including but not limited to a number of criminals. I'm trying to clarify what the illegality is here. Is it the delivery to the state of New York? And if that's the illegality, does it the lawsuit just impel these manufacturers and sellers to the originators here connected to another state that we see books and pick up the same ghost gun? The mayor and I can only talk about New York state and New York City respectively. Let me just say that what we are seeking to do is ban the marketing practices, create a fund to address gun violence in the state of New York, and basically let these companies know that what they are doing is in violation of federal, state, and local law. We're seeking injunctive relief as well for a number of other issues. Are those guns themselves, the creation of a kit like the ones we were right over there, is that the legal in and of itself before it's legal? So the issue here is one, they are evading federal, state, and local law. Two, these are firearms, and based upon the law, based on the federal law and state law, it is illegal to sell firearms into the state of New York. Based on that, based on the fact that under 6312, the executive law, when you engage in repeated acts of illegality, you violate state law, and therefore the Office of Attorney General has a duty and obligation to pursue you under civil court, in civil court. I'm sorry, this is my email. Can you repeat the question? Can you explain why this also announced? At this particular case, we're focusing on ghost guns, but as you know, in the Office of Attorney General, we focused on illegal guns as overall. Since I've been the Attorney General, we have taken off the streets over 3,000 guns through gun buybacks. In addition to that, we've engaged all across the state of New York. We're pursuing individuals who engage in illegal conduct. We've done a number of takedowns, and we have gone after individuals online who have sold illegal firearms, including but not limited to ghost guns. This is just one tool in our toolkit and one of the many efforts that we have attempted to address as it relates to gun violence as I, during my tenure as the Attorney General, and we will continue. This investigation is ongoing. And just to, we say this terminology all the time, there are many rivers that feed the sea of gun violence. There are many rivers. And what's unique about what the police commissioner and I are doing, we look into dam every river. If you dam one river, such as ghost guns, and you leave the other rivers from those guns that are manufactured legally, but they're illegally sold, then you're missing a target. We are going to dam each river to make sure we can stop and drain that sea of violence. And this is one of the rivers we are announcing today with all of our partners that we are looking to dam by doing this lawsuit. And I'm separate and apart, separate and apart. In addition to that, as you know, we've worked with the federal government, ATF, and we've worked with also Attorney Generals all across the state of New York, and again addressing the iron pipeline. Let me just say that the public nuisance law, which was passed by the state legislature, this is the first case, a case of first precedent. In addition to that, I can't think of any other state in this nation that has a similar jurisdiction as we do under executive law section 6312, which allows us to go after businesses when they engage in repeated acts of illegality. This is a question about in light of the Supreme Court ruling, I'm wondering what your thoughts are. We had a video yesterday of a retired sergeant pulling out his gun in a subway system to defend himself against someone that was allegedly harassing him. What do you think about that? I'm not clear on exactly what the case is about with the sergeant. There are clear procedures of when you can use your firearm and I have to look over that case. I don't know all the particulars about that, but if ever a retired member and correctly use their firearms of the police department can use the necessary procedures to take that firearm away and don't allow that person to use it. And so I'm sure the commission is going to look into that particular case. Mr. Mayor, I know last month you requested an ATF or both Palmer 80s license and that never happened and gave much traction. How much does black-footedness from the federal government kind of cause more trouble in this effort, especially in reference to the convey definitions of these firearms that the fed said before? Well, the Palomere request, I think it's premature to say that we didn't get any traction. We are in constant communication with our federal agencies and there's a process to, if they're going to decide to take appropriate actions or not, so it's premature to say if they're not going to. But this is a continuation and we do need the federal government because if we get it right here in New York City and as Andrew indicated, that all of a sudden New York State, all of a sudden New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia, if they don't get it right also, then you just one train ride, one bus ride away from aggravating our problem. So some of the things we're doing, we're going to ask for our federal government, the federal government partners to help us and ensure that it becomes a federal law. Two questions. One for the mayor and one for the attorney general. First of all, what's your feeling about, what's your laundry list for sensitive locations? Even what's going to happen tomorrow it'll be debated in a little while. What are you looking for? My definition of sensitive location is a sensitive city, the entire city of New York. But the Supreme Court said we can't do that and so I think that the clear definition of what it looks like is going to fall with my law department, Judge Raddix and my counsel, Brendan McGuire, they're going to sit down within the parameters of the rulings to identify those locations. We know schools, we know government to buildings, we think that there are other areas that we're going to define as sensitive locations and they're going to give us the list and they're going to move that list forward and they're still analyzing how we can properly identify a sensitive location. Within Judge Thomas' decision, within Judge Thomas' decision, he specifically took a shot at the idea that the island of Manhattan is a sensitive location. What do you think about that? So we've, you don't want me to respond to Judge Thomas. So, I won't say that. So with regards to sensitive areas, houses of faith, obviously, concerts, places where individuals who can assemble and landlords obviously can post notices up with regards to individuals not having in and around their common spaces firearms. With respect to the marketing of guns, clearly marketing of people that want to serve federal laws, do you see any specific targeting to either criminal groups or specific targeting to any individuals to try to really curb these type of guns? Now as part of our investigation, we've not seen that. We've just, again, a number of individuals have been arrested and a number of these individuals, few of these individuals, have had criminal records. The question is to the mayor. He spoke about how you will be filing a lawsuit against the scope of our meeting bill as aggressively. If you have the ability to do so, will you be tracking down and going after the New York president's purchase in these illegal firearms? The individuals who are actually purchasing the firearms. That is part of the actions that the New York City Police Department, they have been doing. They have been going after those who actually have the ghost guns and their possessions. Because remember, they're illegal. They're not legal. And we have been identified and we have confiscated and made arrests. And those who have actually possessed these illegal firearms. Are you able to track down these people based off of the way that they're purchasing through companies instead of just criminal acts? Just for the who's at home? Is your question that the mayor fact that they are possessing these illegal guns? That's illegal. It's a gun. And so it's a crime criminal possession of a firearm. Are you going after these people? Are you tracking down these people who are purchasing these those guns? Yes, yes. Anyone that illegally possess a firearm, we are identifying and tracking down. What percentage of the guns, I saw 12% used in crimes are ghost guns. And the second thing, these ghost gun retailers obviously know you're after them. They have count downs on their website saying, in addition to what's going on with your lawsuit, but the ATF's ghost gun rule takes effect in 55 days, seven hours. So basically get your purchases in now that's got count downs on their websites. What do you say to that? And what is that ATF ghost gun rule? So as it stands out, I won't speak to the ATF rule, but as it stands out, we're obviously concerned about that delay, right? Because it is a bit of a countdown. So our objective is to get as many off the street as humanly possible. We have a significant number of investigations that involve ghost guns. It's a little difficult to say how many are unaccounted for obviously at this time. It's a very difficult to say so, but we endeavor to take every single one off the street. But the countdown concerns us. And if it's a get all you can before it runs out, we're gonna try to address that as we go along as well. So the ATF has issued a new regulation clarifying that the term's frame and receiver as used shall include basically ghost guns. The statue as interpreted by the ATF includes unfinished frames and receivers. It goes into effect in August, which is why you have a countdown clock. And that's why we are seeking a immediate restraining order against these companies. One of the greatest numbers are placed in danger having to investigate these crimes, these purchases. It means that we have to be diligent, we have to be vigilant, we have to be alert, but we have to work a lot harder. And we intend to, we work with our partners to make sure we go after these people who willingly use them against someone else and people who purchase them with mouth intent, obviously. Every single day, the members of the NYPD show up to make this city safe. We are experiencing our 10th, going into our 11th week of a decline in shootings, a decline in murders, but we cannot take our foot off the gas at any time. We are working every single day to drive crime down, drive these numbers down, and get these guns off the street. Right. I have a question on at least responsibility and first issue. Why was it the sheriff's office or department that handled the probe into this, not the police department? I just, can someone clarify like, who gets what in terms of attacking this issue? But what we are asking every agency to do is to closely examine what rules, what authority you have, and to utilize it to focus on those crises that we are experiencing in the city. So this administration is using the full scope of all of our powers the sheriff understood that they had a role in this area. Partnering with the NYPD that's dealing with other parts of Ghost Guns, they utilize their full scope and they're going to be doing more things. You're going to see every agency no longer falls into this myoptic view. I am charging every agency to look at every authority, every power you have to go after the problems that we're facing in the city. And that's what this sheriff has done in just a two month investigation. We have actions because of that. So you're saying we're doing for restitution and damages. Will any of that money go to the families who lost their children to Ghost Guns? The AG has done an amazing job around even an opioid recovery to solve the problem. I think that if the law or the rules or the settlement allows us to do so, we should figure out how we can make family members hold in some way, that's not within my power authority to do so. But we're always looking at how do we go back to those victims and how do we make those victims hold? Unfortunately, those victims, the numbers are growing increasingly every day. But I don't have an objection to that but that would be part of the settlement agreement. So let me just be clear. There's two lawsuits. There's one from the city and there's one from the state. The state seeks to establish this abatement fund. And there is no amount of dollars that we are attaching to our claim for relief. We're seeking discouragement of all of the profits that these 10 companies have been able to generate. And once we can determine the amount, that amount will be put in an abatement fund to address gun violence in the state of New York. I just wanted to run by both of you to comment. I just got from one of the parties in this lawsuit, Indie Guns, the one based in Orlando. They say that this is a politically motivated effort to vilify a small business that has not violated federal state or municipal law. So what if I get a response to that notion that this is to score political points here? We'll see them in court. Okay, we're gonna free y'all up from the old topic, the ride, you know? Yeah. Thank you, thank you. Y'all are well done. Let's take a few off topic from Michael. So, I was wondering if you could talk about yesterday's election. You know, in general, a lot of it's been well, aggressive, not as well. I mean, there's, it's been framed that there's a bit of a proxy war between yourself and AOC. How do you, what do you attribute the results to as far as like voter sentiment? What's going on here? Why do people vote the way they did yesterday?  Nothing I do is about one particular lawmaker. I do not have, I think, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and I have similar blue collar roots and she is not in my sights. I do not think about what her philosophy of opinions are. It's about solving the problems. We both want the same problems solved. We have, we may question the routes to doing so, but we both want the same problems solved. And as I stated yesterday, when I was at the governor's announcement, victory in the primary, that it is time for us to come together, focus on those areas we agree on. And so I think that many New Yorkers, pole after pole, New Yorkers state they want to be safe. They state they support their police department. They state they want affordable housing, like what we're doing with NYCHA and other things. They state they want their children educated. And those who won spoke to the desires of New Yorkers throughout the entire state. And when you look at the race and the outcome, clearly it is an alignment of what I've been saying for a long time. How do you respond to those who say that members of your administration pressured and threatened voters in Borough Park into supporting any revenue for district leaders? How do you, it's threatening and voters? Troubled and threatened voters in Borough Park into supporting revenue for district leaders. How do you respond to those? Well, clearly whomever said that is can't be a New Yorker because New York is, you cannot intimidate and threaten. Voters are gonna vote. They can care less of intimidation. We don't intimidate voters. We state what our vision is. And I believe Penny Ringle had a clear vision for our city and he shared it with the voters. The, it's almost impossible to walk around with every voter and say we're going to threaten or intimidate you. That is not the process. The process is you put your best message out to voters and voters decide on who they want to elect. And that's what happened there. And I'm excited that he was able to win the race because Borough Park is an important part of the city. Mr. Mayor, on congestion pricing, the MTA just announced that they have gotten their ducks in a row essentially. Their questions are answered to the federal government. I wanted to see if I could get a sense from you what you'd like to see from the program. If there are any exemptions that you would like to see come forth. How do you anticipate this shaping up as the MTA puts the program together? Still looking at it. I know we are participating. I spoke with Deputy Mayor Mira Josie. We have been really collaborating with the MTA, but we do need exemptions.  If a New York City bus goes through. So we need to, the devil's, the devil is in the details. We need to be clear that there should be a level of exemptions that we should put in place that we're not overburdening New Yorkers for using our streets. I mean, these are New York City streets. And so we should not have us double tax. And we're looking at that now as part of our conversation. You only want city-owned vehicles essentially or other groups you're looking at to have an exemption as well? I think there's some other exemptions. I think those are low-income New Yorkers that must use vehicles. Let's say if you have to go to chemo treatment at a certain hospital, we should take that into consideration. And so it shouldn't be just a blanket of we're not exempting anyone and it can't be just city vehicles. I'm open to a real conversation and hear from those who must use vehicles. It's different from it being a luxury than a necessity. And there are some cases that I believe it is a necessity. And I'm open to that conversation. Hello, Mayor. With the over saturation of opioid treatment centers in Harlem and the negative effects of it, people nodding in the streets, how can you engage better with the community to decide when new centers are open? Because it's been a practice where some centers like on the East side, they just popped up. There was no community engagement. And we're having our children walking past people, nodding, shooting up the drugs that they're getting from the center. So how can we work collectively to kind of change that time? Thank you for that. When I was running during the campaign after the primary, I went to Harlem and I met with a group of residents that they were concerned about 125th Street. We did a walk around. They were dead on. You saw an over proliferation of people just hanging out, loitering. There was a problem. We were dropping people off from Randall's Island right at 2nd Avenue. And we had a meeting. The police commissioner and I met with Congressman Espaillat and other community leaders and stated how could we do an initiative on 125th Street? I was up there yesterday or two days ago and I saw the difference right away. We put a command center there. We did a collaboration of different agencies to not allow people just to loiter in that fashion. Now what's interesting is that there were some electeds up there that stated they did not want the police enforcement. There were those who said they did. And so what we said to the electeds, you must get together and then come up and be part of the plan. Let us know what you want. Because what we're finding over and over again, those who are representing the area must craft the plan that they both live with. Because if we initiate through our agency's actions and you have electeds pushing back on us, that's not a productive relationship. That's what I was asking if you could be at the table because you're right. Some electeds, they don't want the criminalization of the issue. But just like the people left for 125th, if you happen to just ride through 124th Street now, all of that business has moved to 124th Street now.  Seriously, this is not to be able to be able because some elected officials, they may not want criminalization. Like most of us don't, but then if you don't want that, what can we do collectively when you don't live on 125th, 124th? So it's easy to say what you don't want when you're living further up when you're not dealing with all of that craziness. I'll say, I didn't know that it was displaced to 124th. So I'll head up to Harlem and take a look at it and see what's going on. Okay, we'll take a look at it because we want to make sure that we pivot and shift to address the problem. And you're right that we cannot oversaturate one community with the safe injection sites. We do know these safe injection sites do produce a good product about preventing ODs we're thinking about a different way of doing them. I have spoke with Deputy Mayor William Isom and we're trying to pivot and shift a new model and I don't want to put it out there until we know if it could be done legally. But there's some laws that are preventing us from doing something that some of the things we want to do differently. Last question. Mr. Mayor, you mentioned that Rudolph Giuliani should be investigated for falsely reporting a crime. Do you still think that and is there an investigation into the former mayor? Think about what happened here. I don't know if many people really understand what happened here. The former mayor made several serious allegations. He was reported. He was video saying things that happened. Those things did not happen. Because of his report to the police department, a person went to jail for 24 hours. I don't know if people know what it's like being in jail when you did not commit a crime. You never get over that. This person's life has been changed because of what, as all of us saw, the pat on the back was not a punch to the head. It was not knocking someone to the ground. And I believe just as we've done in other cases where Karen incident happened in Central Park and other incidents, I believe the DA should look at that and determine what the final outcome is. What's wrongfully arrested? Well, the DA must determine that. I am not the district attorney. The district attorney must make that determination. I just don't want to see Innocent New Yorkers spend time in jail. Jail is not something we should use against Innocent New Yorkers. Thank you.


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When you're worried about a child or a young person's well-being, can you make things worse by talking to them? That's a question I get asked all the time and the answer in short is probably not. It's almost always better to say something than not to say anything at all. Sometimes you might end up having a conversation which might not go quite as you'd hope. It might be that that young person gets angry or upset. It might be that they refuse to talk to you or they run away. But actually by beginning that conversation, you have let that young person know that you care, that you're not scared of having this conversation and that you are here if they need you. So even if it doesn't end well, actually that conversation has served a really, really good purpose. So please be forgiving of yourself if the conversation goes less well than you think it might. Actually, most times you'll find that if you follow a few sort of simple steps that I'll give you now, that those conversations will generally go pretty well. So the first thing is that your main aim during this conversation is to listen. It's not to talk. It's not to second-guess what's going on with the young person. It's not to fill in the gaps or anything like that. It's just to listen. Your primary role here is to listen. You're not going to fix things. You're not going to necessarily come up with solutions. The main aim of early conversations when you're worried about someone is to let them speak. So they should be doing the talking and you should be doing the listening. The next thing is to employ your best acting skills to try and appear calm and supportive. So I always like to use the analogy of the swan here. You know how the swan glides so beautifully across the top of the water? Actually, what you can't see is the frantic paddling going on underneath the surface. Now that might be happening with you during this conversation. You might have all sorts of different things going around in your head. Perhaps this conversation has made you panic or worry or feel very sad or angry. All sorts of things. But actually, what the young person needs in this instance is for you to be the swan. So you might have to do your best acting skills. You should not be injecting your emotion, your feelings, your fears, your opinions into this conversation. You just need to listen calmly and supportively. So be the swan, even if it means your very best acting skills. The next thing is do not be afraid of silence. Silence is like the therapist's best friend. So in therapy and counselling, we make really, really big use of silence. But it's something that doesn't come naturally to us as humans. And so we find that when we open ourselves up to listening to a young person, that if they don't feel the gaps, we find ourselves compelled to do that. But actually, if we can take a step back and embrace the silence, then usually they'll feel those gaps. The other thing is that sometimes the room might feel very, very empty and quiet to us. And you can't even imagine the tumble we're going by and it's kind of awkward. But for the young person, there's loads of stuff going on in their head. And they're just trying to get their thoughts in order. Maybe this is the first time they've ever had this conversation and they don't know quite how to phrase it. Or they are busy second guessing what you're thinking or what you're going to do next and what's going to happen as a result of this. So there's lots and lots of stuff going on in their mind and they just might need a little bit of space and time just to put that into order so they can package it up in a way that they feel comfortable talking to you about. The next thing to think about is how you can prompt a young person to keep talking. So remember, you're listening, they're talking. But sometimes there are simple things you can do to help that conversation to keep on unfolding. So where possible, you want to help them to expand on what they're saying. So that's making use of open questions. So questions which invite longer answers. Another thing that can be really helpful to do is to summarise every now and then and just reflect back what a young person is saying to you in your own words. So every now and then in the conversation, you'll do this. You'll take what they've said, put it in your own words and just make sure that you've understood what it is they're saying. Those reflection moments are really helpful for a number of reasons. One is that when we put something into our own words and we reflect it back to the person we're talking to, it helps to lock this conversation in our mind. So we don't need to keep loads of notes. We can, you know, bear in mind everything that's been said and we can make notes afterwards. So it's helpful for that reason. It's also helpful because it's a really, really clear way of showing that young person, I'm listening. Hey, look, I even put it in my own words. I'm definitely listening. Thirdly, it's really helpful because it gives a moment when that young person can clarify, perhaps you put it into your own words and no, you didn't get it quite right. That gives them a chance to come back and put you right. So rather than you kind of misunderstanding what's going on, it gives a moment when they can pause and reflect and make some changes to what you've interpreted from what they've said, gives them a moment to kind of clarify. The most important thing, though, is just to listen. And people worry that they don't have time. This sounds like a very, very long-winded process and we think about like, you know, therapy, which can take huge, great swathes of time. But what is more important than the quantity of the time is the quality of the time. So if you're worried about a child or a young person and you want to open yourself to listening to them, to supporting them through active listening, actually the most important thing is that you give of yourself wholly for a few minutes. So there is nothing more important to you right now than them. It doesn't have to be for a huge period of time, be really clear with them what the parameters are. I've got 10 minutes. It's really important to me to hear what you've got to say and you're the most important thing to me right now. Yeah, so be clear that they're the most important thing to you, but yes, you don't have to have lots and lots and lots of time, quality rather than quantity. When you finish the conversation, make sure you agree some next steps. This doesn't mean that you were figured out a solution to this problem. It means perhaps you're agreeing to talk again another time. You're thinking about who else needs to be informed about this. Perhaps you are thinking about some practical things that might help this young person get through the rest of the day or that might support them otherwise in the near future. But do have some clear next steps. They need to know that this conversation meant something that something will happen as a result even if that's just I need to go away and think about this. Let's meet again at the end of the day. Finally, this will have been a super tough conversation for the child or young person you're working with. It might have been really tough for you too, but for them, it might be the first time they've ever had this conversation and they chose you. That's huge. So it's worth acknowledging that. Say thank you, acknowledge this must have been really tough and it means a lot to me that you felt you could trust me. It really matters. Say thank you, acknowledge how tough it was. So there you go. Some kind of general rules of thumb, but then, you know, going back to the beginning there, can you make things worse? It's very unlikely that you will make things worse even if in the initial instant, you feel, wow, that conversation went badly. It still sends a really important message to that young person that you care, that you're there to support them. If it doesn't go well, follow up at another time or perhaps identify another adult who that young person might feel more comfortable talking to and try to engineer a situation where they can provide their support. I hope that's helpful. Good luck with your listening. It really, really matters and it makes much more difference than you'll ever know. Thank you.