Forlesia, a D.C. resident, talks about her grandson Marty, who went missing on April 23 after meeting someone online and was later killed. She and other speakers describe the shooting and blame local policies for violent crime in the city.
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You know, they got this old slogan out. They say, if you want to get away with murder, kill him. In D.C. that's a slogan. That's the street slogan. Every time I turn around, there's another shooting, there's a murder in the District. They killing and walking away with minimum time. See, dc, they need everything that Trump is doing. I don't care what they say about him, fix it. My name is Felicia Cook, and I've been a D.C. resident since I was born there in 1956. On April 23, that's when Marty went missing. I went downstairs and he wasn't there. I said, well, I'm gonna call his job and see if he's been to work. Cause I know how excited he was about the job. And the people said at work that he hadn't been to work. When I hung up the phone, it's kind of like I knew I something was wrong. Meantime, my daughter coming up here every Friday, and she going through everything he had downstairs, and she found out his last conversation was with some girl he had met on plenty of fish. He went to visit her and he never came back home. That's all he was doing, was going on a date. That was it.
He shot that boy seven times. He overkilled him. Cold blood. He didn't give him a chance. My grandson was 23 years old, just getting his life together, man.
My grandson, life did matter. And I live with that pain every day. What are you telling the victims? We don't matter.
The criminals matter more.
The Democrats didn't do it. I stood in front of the Department of Justice. I talked to Mayor Bus. They heard his story. They knew it. They saw us out there crying.
Never did nothing.
We have to live with this for the rest of my life.
I'm so glad.
This somebody's finally hearing him.
The man is doing something right.
It's time for it.
I don't care what you say. Be mad at me. Be mad at me.
Somebody's finally trying to do something to make it better.
You wanted to clean up. You wanted to stop. Let them killers know you mean business.
Thank you. Thank you so much. God.
Sleep. It brings some soothing to my pain.
To know that somebody cares. Somebody somewhere cares. And I don't want this to happen to nobody else.
