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Birmingham mayor pitches $7.4M in youth programs after string of student shooting deaths

New Birmingham budget worth record $517 million.

Birmingham mayor pitches $7.4M in youth programs after string of student shooting deaths

New Birmingham budget worth record $517 million.

WHAT IS THIS ENHANCED YOUTH INVESTMENT LOOK LIKE JOHN. WELL GUYHE T MAYOR TODAY RANLLDA WOODFIN PITCHED 7.4 MILLION DOLLARS IN YOUTH PROGRAMS IN HIS NEW BUDGET. HE PRESENTED. SPENDING PLAN TO CITY COUNCIL ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF CITY HALL THIS MORNING LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER THE CYIT LOST YET ANOTHER TEEN TO GUN VIOLENCE. HE WORE BLUE AND BLACK. NICE, HE WAS HE WAS LOOKING SHARP SENIOR PROM WAS SPECIAL FOR CARVER HIGHS DWAYNE THOMAS HIS PRINCIPAL TIKI HINES SAYS THE RAM BASEBALL PLAYER WAS SET TO GRADUATE IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS. HE WAS JUST ALWAYS HAVE A SMILE ON HIS FACE. HE’S VERY COMPLIANT. HE WAS JUST VERY LAID BACK THEN YESTERDAY. SHE FOUND OUT THOMAS WAS GUNNED DOWN OUTSIDE THESE TUSCALOOSA AVENUE APARTMENTS. IS JUST GOTTEN SO OUT OF CONTROL. AND WNHE SCHOOL LEADERS CITY LEADERS, WE FEEL HELPLESS I DO AT CITYOUNC CIL TODAY. MAYOR RANDALL WOODFIN ACKNOWLEDGE THOMAS’S DEATH AND THE GROWING LIST OF TEEN GUN VIOLENCE VICTIMS IN THE CITY. NOT ONE NOT TWO NOT THREE NOT FOUR NOT FIVE. NOT SIX NOT SEVEN. WE’VE HAD EIGHT BIRMINGHAM CITY SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL STUDESNT SHOT AND KILL. SO TSHI MORNING WHAT FIN HIGHLIGHTED EIGHT INITIATIVES TO HELP BIRMINGHAM’S YTHOU IN HIS WNE BUDGET. THEY INCLUDE CONFLICT REVOLUTION CURRICULUM A JUVENILE RE-ENTRY PROGRAM AND A SAFE HAVEN INITIATIVE AT CITY REC CENTERS. I JUST LIST ALL ALL THESE THINGS. WE’RE GOING TO DO FOR OUR YOUTH IT’S NOT ENOUGH JUST ONE WEEK EARLIER. WHAT HIMSELF SPOKE AT DYNWAE THOMAS’S SCHOOL HINES REMEMBERS ONE STUDENT’S POWERFUL PLEA FOR HELP ONE OF THE STUDENTS HERE. HOW CAN YOU GUARANTEE? OUR SATY DWAYNE THOMAS DIED ONLY TWO WEEKS BEFORE GRADUATING WITH HONSOR NOW THE BIRMINGHAM POLICE OFFICER THAT ACTUALLY WITNESSED A DUANE THOMAS'’ DEATH PURSUED THE SUSPECT, BUT TYHE GOT AWAY, BUT JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO. I FOUND OUT THAT BIRMINGHAM POLICE. CURRENTLY QUEIONINGST A PERSON OF INTEREST SO FARO N CHOICES HAVE B
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Birmingham mayor pitches $7.4M in youth programs after string of student shooting deaths

New Birmingham budget worth record $517 million.

Following a string of shootings where teenagers are the suspects or victims, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin pitched $7.4 million in youth programs Tuesday in hopes of guiding the city's younger crowd toward a brighter future. Learn more in the video above.There have been eight Birmingham City Schools students murdered so far in 2022, including 17-year-old Dwaine Thomas, who was fatally shot during a physical fight Monday afternoon.Follow Jon Paepcke on Facebook and Twitter.—

Following a string of shootings where teenagers are the suspects or victims, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin pitched $7.4 million in youth programs Tuesday in hopes of guiding the city's younger crowd toward a brighter future. Learn more in the video above.

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There have been eight Birmingham City Schools students murdered so far in 2022, including 17-year-old Dwaine Thomas, who was fatally shot during a physical fight Monday afternoon.

Follow Jon Paepcke on Facebook and Twitter.