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Grandfather of Young Boy Killed by a Stray Bullet in Washington D.C. Says “We Need the Police”
The grandfather of an 11-year-old who was killed by a stray bullet in Washington, D.C. told “The Story” that calls to defund the police are “not going to work.” According to him, crimes that involve guns continue in major cities in the country.
“You can't take money from the police department,” said John Ayala, the founder of D.C.'s Guardian Angels chapter.
“We need the police. You take the police from there and we wind up having less police officers in the street and less detectives. It's not going to work. Crime is going to get worse…if you start having less police officers, who's going to come when there is a need for police services?”
Ayala’s grandson, Davon McNeal, was killed while getting a phone charger on the way to a community cookout.
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According to Washington D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham, about five men shot up the area and stroke McNeal. McNeal later died at a hospital.
“I think in the cities, you have a lot of people that just do not value life at this time,” Ayala said. “They don't realize that when you take a life, that life is not coming back.”
Fox News reported that “Ayala joins five other American families and communities in mourning following shooting incidents over the Fourth of July weekend that resulted in the deaths of six children.”
“Before going to go after the police officers when they hurt someone that looks like me, they need to go after the people that look like me that hurt people that look like me,” he said.
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