The problem wasn’t solved when the Confederate Flag was removed?
Via WISTV:
City leaders and communities sent a message to gang members in North Charleston: call them.
In a press conference Tuesday evening, Charleston County council members Teddie Pryor and Henry Darby, along with local activists, gave out phone numbers, saying it’s time to bring people together.
“We need to get all of you to the table to talk,” council member Darby said. “A plan has been developed to stop us from killing one another.”
The men then gave out their personal telephone numbers.[…]
Darby said this is the first step to stop the unnecessary gang violence in North Charleston.
“Too much of the black community has gone to the front wheel lanes of gangs, drugs, teen and pre-teen sexual promiscuity and unemployment,” Darby said. “It is destroying us.”
The men are focusing on gang activity on Remount Road, Liberty Hill, Ferndale and Dorchester Waylyn.
Darby referenced the 11 shooting related deaths that have happened in North Charleston since January.
“It is time for the black community to come home,” Darby said. “It is time for black man to make their family whole again.”
The men said they’re addressing gang violence first, asking all black men involved in gangs to call them and simply talk.
“This has nothing to do with you getting into trouble,” Darby said. “We need to talk face to face, mature men to young men.”
Right now, law enforcement isn’t involved in this effort, there’s no funding for a plan. The men just hope those involved in gangs know they’re not giving up.