NYC enlists former gang members as 'violence interrupters'
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August 3, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — David Gaskin steps into the street armed with a bullhorn. Cars swerve. He glares.
The former gang member raises the mic to his lips and preaches the message emblazoned on his T-shirt, on his orange baseball cap, on the rubber bands around his wrist and on his Adidas tracksuit: "Stop Shooting. Start Living."
"If you're ready to stand against gun violence, let me hear you say, 'I'm ready!'" he yells to a gathering crowd.
"I'm ready!" they respond.
Gaskin staked out his spot in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood because that's where a 27-year-old man was shot three days ea...
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