On a day when at least a dozen people were injured in shootings in Philadelphia, teens at City Hall staged a 'die-in' to call attention to the gun violence crisis.
in Philadelphia, teens at City Hall staged a "die-in" to call attention to the gun violence crisis.
Each student who participated in the "die-in" laid within a chalk outline drawn on the sidewalk for roughly two minutes and thirty seconds; one second for each person who has been shot and killed in Philadelphia this year. "As I Plant This Seed" offers free programs to youths including boxing, etiquette, self-defense, chess and guitar. The goal is to steer kids away from falling into street crime.
"The urgency of the gun violence is happening now we cannot wait for funding to happen so we kind of have to take things into our own hands when we got a whole bunch of kids depending on us and parents depending on us," Buddah Thompson-Power from Power Circle of Mentors said.
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