{"id":1437,"date":"2024-06-09T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T17:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2025-03-13T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:04:17","slug":"council-member-louis-organizes-youth-rally-and-anti-gun-violence-basketball-tournament-to-increase-awareness-of-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2024\/06\/09\/council-member-louis-organizes-youth-rally-and-anti-gun-violence-basketball-tournament-to-increase-awareness-of-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Member Louis Organizes Youth Rally and Anti-Gun Violence Basketball Tournament to Increase Awareness of Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For&nbsp;National Gun Violence Awareness Month in the month of June, Council Member Louis organized a youth rally and an anti-gun violence tournament at Nostrand Playground to raise awareness of gun violence. The event focused on decreasing gun violence and increasing safety among community members, where&nbsp;resources, job opportunities, and activities were available to help protect and prevent gun violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t have an over reliance on law enforcement and more importantly the community needs to step up,&#8221; <strong>said Council Member Louis. <\/strong>&#8220;We have to work with our cure violence groups and most importantly if you see something you need to say something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more on PIXII <strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/brooklyn-youth-rally-calls-for-end-to-gun-violence-hails-summer-start\/\">link)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For&nbsp;National Gun Violence Awareness Month in the month of June, Council Member Louis organized a youth rally and an anti-gun violence tournament at Nostrand Playground to raise awareness of gun violence. The event focused on decreasing gun violence and increasing safety among community members, where&nbsp;resources, job opportunities, and activities were available to help protect and prevent gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t have an over reliance on law enforcement and more importantly the community needs to step up,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2024\/06\/09\/council-member-louis-organizes-youth-rally-and-anti-gun-violence-basketball-tournament-to-increase-awareness-of-gun-violence\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}