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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — When Angela Royster thinks astir her lad Devin, she smiles.
“What I miss the astir from my lad is the mode helium would accidental ‘hi ma,'” she said successful an interrogation with WJZ Wednesday.
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Her lad Devin was lone 21 erstwhile helium was killed 2 years ago.
Now she’s 1 of galore families successful Baltimore City surviving with the imperishable scars of losing a loved one.
“We can’t support surviving this way,” said Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-7th District) successful an interrogation with WJZ.
Angela’s Story is conscionable 1 of the galore reasons wherefore Baltimore’s Congressional Delegation sent a missive Monday to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, asking for help.
“We’re asking for 10 further ATF agents, we’re asking for 15 Deputy Marshals,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, (D-8th District) who was among the officials to constitute and motion the missive on with Rep. Mfume and Sen. Ben Cardin (D-3rd District).
“We’re going to effort arsenic champion we tin to augment the Baltimore Police Department,” said Rep. Mfume.
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“The bottommost enactment is we’ll each enactment together, the homicide needs to travel down,” Sen. Cardin added Wednesday.
The missive asks wherefore cities similar Washington D.C. person much staffing from national instrumentality enforcement than Baltimore.
“I don’t cognize the past clip determination has been a re-evaluation of levels of bureau resources,” said Rep. Mfume.
The Delegation met with the Mayor successful July wherever Sen. Van Hollen said they strategized however to excavation resources and champion spouse to enactment the Mayor’s program to combat convulsive transgression and pledged their support.
Sen. Cardin said they expect a effect from the Department of Justice sometime successful August and helium hopes to get commitments, successful presumption of what resources the metropolis volition get, by September.
Read the afloat missive here:
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