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On Buffalo Streets, Outreach Workers Push for Freedom from Violence [theimprint.org]

 

By Adilia Watson, Photo: Malik Rainey, The Imprint, June 30, 2022

Another teenager had just been shot, and Buffalo community activists were, yet again, taking to the streets. This early April afternoon, a dozen outreach workers gathered at the intersection of Roslyn Street and East Delavan Avenue, determined to curb gun violence and reduce the chances of retaliation once shootings have occurred.

Weeks before an avowed white supremacist was arrested for gunning down shoppers at the Tops Friendly Market nearby, killing 10 Black residents, staff with the nonprofit known as Buffalo SNUG walked the city’s sidewalks, advocating for peace. This was not the first time the team had canvassed this New York neighborhood, and residents and passersby showed their support. Drivers honked and onlookers waved from porches.

“Hands up! Guns down! No more shootings! No more killing!” a leader of SNUG — which stands for Should Never Use Guns and GUNS spelled backwards — shouted into a bullhorn.

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