After the shooting at East High School, Mayor Hancock joined us to address frustrations around gun violence and offered background into the decision to place armed officers at all DPS high schools.
DENVER — Denver7 anchors Nicole Brady and Brian Sanders were at East High School Thursday morning following the shootingand were joined by Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.In this interview, presented as a Q&A format, the mayor addressed growing frustration of parents and students on gun violence and offered insight and background into the decision to place armed officers at all Denver Public Schools high schools through the remainder of the school year.Thank you for joining us.
And we agreed that we've got to get officers in this building. A lot of people are asking question, why were Deans patting down the student? Well, if there was an SRO in the building, more than likely, it would not have been patting down on the student. And the student may have thought twice, about bringing a weapon in the school. And so it's those sorts of situations that we felt that it was necessary for us to move.
It's no longer just the school board. It's the Denver Police Department, the city of Denver, who have to lean in and say, You know what, we have to step in down and make decisions in the best interest of the people in that building.Clearly, there's a new urgency, a renewed urgency. And we know safety has been a top priority for you, leading the city for the last 12 years and cracking down on gun violence and youth violence.
But the reality is that there will be that's why we have such a long transition in Denver in six weeks. And we will have theopportunity to sit with them and talk to them about what we how we are shaping or see the situation. And then these are tools that we have brought to bear and the tools that are also still available that maybe haven't been deployed.
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