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Malik Evans: “I've seen it with my own eyes. I watched people be dropped…”

Featuring: Malik Evans, Democratic | Mayor of Rochester, New York

RPD Media Conference on North Clinton Avenue Public Safety Actions

Published July 24, 2025 | Video Starts at 12:37

I'm speaking as someone that has walked this at least four times within the last month and walking it again Monday at noon. I've seen it with my own eyes. I watched people be dropped off from outlying areas and be sold drugs. I watched it with my. With my own eyes. And I came. Not I wanted to come as a resident, and I didn't announce it to any of the media that I would be there, but I saw it with my own eyes. (12:37–12:46)

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Asserts personal observation of people being dropped off from outside areas to buy drugs.

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