Malik Evans: “Rochester is under attack [by the federal government].”

“This meeting was scheduled before the czar decided to come to Rochester. This was, this is a federal meeting that we had with community based members who basically have, who feel as though Rochester is under attack [by the federal government]. And Rochester is under attack. We have never seen like anything like this in, in our, in our city's history in which the federal government is picking on a medium sized city in upstate New York.” (00:17–00:19)

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