Hi Anaya Louise with a CVS in Houston
question you sent out a letter a
few incorrect me I'm sorry I cat
remember the date you guys sent
out a letter of signed by city,
County School officials asking
people not to come to town to
give kind of people a space.
But it feels like you guys kind
of want to brush this off.
What happened kind of don't
want people to report what.
You know, I feel like these fams
have been failed in so many levs
and you guys don't want us here
reporting that that's how it fe.
And you're asking to tow vehicls
from the memorial, from the mur.
I mean, these are things that ae
keeping their kids memories alive and you
guys are asking to tow away vehicles.
It just,
it doesn't make sense.
Please kind of explain the thout
process behind that and why youe
asking people to stay away when clearly.
Not everybody feels that way.
And a lot of these families wane
memories of their children to live on
and they're actually fighting for change.
Well,
first of all, we we didn't
talk to every family member.
We did have some means with famy
members and something that I did
talk to wanted to have privacy d
want to do their own thing that.
And so that's why we wrote that letter,
not not to like I said,
not to a gotcha moment against
the families or anything.
We wanted them to have the
privacy if they wanted.
If they wanted to visit their grave site,
we didn't want a reporter sticka
camera in their face the whole .
So that's why we asked for that privacy,
because that's when we want
the discussions we had.
That's what they wanted.
Like I said, we are in full supt
of what the families want to do,
using the amphitheater,
using the Civic Center.
Whatever resources we have,
we've tried and we'll make avaie
to them to support them any way we can.
Like I said, we're not,
we're not trying to, you know,
as far as interviews.
If you've asked, I don't think there's
me that can say I haven't given.
I mean,
I have the answers you want,
but I've tried to be as transparent and
as straightforward as I can be e
day one and I will continue to be that way.
But there's no gotcha moment ofs
trying to to to push the families off
or not acknowledge this this happened.
It's something we have to live .
The rest of our lives will be at
of this community and we don't ,
we will not feel the same pain that these
families have and can't even imagine it.
It's a faint,
it's a pain this whole community
has felt for a year and and togr
we'll move forward and like I s,
we're here to support the families and
that's what this week will be a,
is what they what we can do to support them.
I know that there was also something that
mentioned that you kind of wanted that
you had spoken about possibly getting
rid of the crosses in the Center Plaza.
And obviously these families want to leave
their memory of their children there.
Do you commit on keeping those
crosses there for these families
that that's something that we'll
have to talk to the families th.
You know, whether they'll stay
in the cross or we pick them up,
whether they stay in the Plaza
or we pick a memorial site and e
do where we're going to do this,
that's a discussion that we have to have
with the families that we have not had yet.
And then one last question, Sir,
what's the latest on the investigation
in your Police Department?
Our investigator is is still gathering
information, and we are finally
working together to get all the
information that we need so that
we can complete our investigati.
It's been a year, though
you're not. You're preaching to the choir.
Ma'am. I know it's been a year,
and I can tell you from why I'm sitting,
it's been as frustrating as hel.
Mr. Mayor, could I say word?
I'd like to have one.
Just one quick word on the lett.
I was in the room where a
lot of people representative,
school, county, city,
and the intent of the of the ler
was not to exclude anybody but o
send try to send a message and
I believe is 100% agreed upon in
that meeting that the intent was
if you're coming to and you have
to to cause trouble if you're
coming to protest other things
in opposition to our families.
That maybe you should just find
another time and place to do th.
That was the intent of that language.
And I really regret that some
of our families,
if they thought that was a tryig
to get people to stay away,
that was not the case.
I guarantee you 100% of that ler
was to try to prevent bad actors
from coming in and disrupting
the families for that day.
I
might add I was in that same
region that that wasn't sent.
There's been talk of what I woud
just call people with not good motives
that were coming and if we coulo
anything to discourage them from coming.
I'm here to to say to do anythig
and that that was the intent ofe
privacy in the in the end of 10.
Now maybe the words didn't come out that way.
Like I said, I've preached a log
time and I don't always say this
exactly the way I want to say it
but the the heart behind it was.
Made like was good and and and wanted
to be as protected as we could.