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Title: At least 50,000 CUNY students to have their
student debt wiped clean
Summary: Governor Andrew Cuomo is eliminating up to
$125 million in unpaid student debt for 50,000 CUNY
students who experienced fi nancial hardship during
the pandemic under a new initiative called the CUNY
Comeback Program.
Reach: 4,219 (as of 08/03/2021)
Caught in the crossfi re
A beautiful summer night in Queens
on Saturday turned bloody when two
gunmen went on the attack, opening
fi re on people outside a barber shop, a
restaurant and a laundromat.
When the smoke cleared, 10 people
lay wounded. Fortunately, they’re
all recovering from their injuries, and
the NYPD is on the case looking for
the culprits.
Early in the investigation, it became
clear to investigators just what they
were dealing with. Chief of Detectives
James Essig described the shooting as
“a brazen, coordinated attack” — the
apparent work of street gang members.
Indeed, police learned that three of
the 10 shooting victims were members
of the Trinitarios street gang, and
the apparent intended targets of the
rampage.
But while the shooters targeted
three specifi c individuals, they injured
seven “innocent bystanders” in the
process. Th e shooting was a wanton,
reckless act that further struck fear
into a city already in angst over the
yearlong rise in gun violence.
Indeed, as Essig pointed out, this
is part of an all-too-familiar pattern
of gang shootings in the city. Gang
members blast away at their rivals on
a street, usually at night and from a
vehicle of some kind, fi ring at their
subjects indiscriminately.
And too oft en, in the process, other
individuals with nothing to do with
whatever beef led to the shooting are
caught in the crossfi re and wounded.
Th is must stop.
We know the NYPD’s stepping up its
eff orts to get guns off the streets and
lock armed individuals up. We know
that the de Blasio administration has
promoted alternative enforcement
programs such as violence interrupter
groups and youth programs to give
people a reason to steer clear of gangs.
But the public must come forward
with information and cooperate with
police to lock up the bastards responsible
for this mass shooting, and other
episodes of gang violence in New York
City.
Too oft en, the NYPD gets little
cooperation when it comes to fi nding
the shooters and bringing them to
justice. We get the instinctive fear of
cooperation, but as long as the shooters
remain on the streets, they will
continue to put whole communities at
risk of injury and death.
As long as gang violence continues
to grip parts of New York, we are
all at risk.
Call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-
TIPS. All calls are kept confi dential. Photo by Dean Moses
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