Cherelle Parker: “We were announcing a 21.7 million dollar investment in McPherson Library, the park, the rec.”

“Some of the very, you know, gruesome visuals about what was just happening there in the open and police would just walk right by and imagine the kids we were when you Saw me, We were announcing a 21.7 million dollar investment in McPherson Library, the park, the rec. and imagine kids then trying to get to what was called Needle park and they couldn't go and play in the park because it was consumed by, by needles and government.” (09:20–09:28)

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