“Enough is enough because we know we can do something about it,” Joe Biden hammered before a hundred New York City and State officials, gathered at police headquarters in New York. invitation from new Democratic mayor Eric Adams, a tough-on-crime supporter.
In a speech, the American president took up national crime figures counting “64 children injured in gun violence since the beginning of the year and 26 killed”.
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He touted “the implementation of a comprehensive gun crime strategy in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta and many others” but acknowledged that federal authorities must “do any further”.
Republican Opposition
Accused by his Republican opposition of passivity in the fight against rising insecurity since 2020, the Democratic head of state denounced “the resistance of certain sectors of government, Congress and state assemblies” federated, without being more precise.
Joe Biden is visiting New York, rocked in recent weeks by a wave of gun violence, to assure Americans that he takes seriously the rise in crime across the country, a politically undermined subject for him.
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