(24 Aug 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Knoxville, Tennessee – 4 August 2023
1. Zoom of Charlene Roberts’s Knoxville home
HEADLINE: Knoxville gun violence is tearing families apart
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlene Roberts, Knoxville resident
“My son, January the 10th, 2021. I was handed down a life sentence. I never get to see him again, besides my stand up, my pictures, videos popping up. Same way with my daughter. We don't have that anymore. It's sad. It really is, because you have memories of, they say not just my kids, other people.”
3. Various of family pictures
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Knoxville, Tennessee – 3 August 2023
4. Medium of Terry Walker-Smith looking at pictures
5. Close of picture
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Terry Walker-Smith, Gun violence prevention advocate.
“These are the boys. And it's like I said, it's not a day that goes by that I don't think about them."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Terry Walker-Smith, Gun violence prevention advocate.
"There has to be accountability. There has to be responsibility. And nobody is saying nobody has the right to bear arms. It's to make a safe community.”
8. Wide of Knoxville Mayor’s leadership meeting
9. Close of Knoxville Deputy Chief Tony Willis
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Willis, Knoxville Police Department Deputy Chief
“There is tons of expertise way beyond what we have, and we want hear and partner with them. This is not the police being the hammer in this project, we are a collaborator.”
11. Various of meeting
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Denzel Grant, Turn Up Knox executive director
“We are dealing with a close to 50 percent poverty rate in a black community, in a community that only makes up less than 10 percent of its entire population. You can't find no other cities like that in America.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Knoxville, Tennessee – 4 August 2023
13.Various of Knoxville city views
ANNOTATION: Turn Up Knox, a street outreach program, follows a science-based playbook in fighting a surge in shootings on Knoxville's impoverished east side.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Knoxville, Tennessee – 3 August 2023
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Denzel Grant, Turn Up Knox executive director
“We have had a number of shootings in this area December of last year. Germany Hines was actually murdered in this very spot.”
15. Various of Knoxville east side community
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Kodi Mills, Turn Up Knox violence interrupter
“This was like the center or most of the violence in the city where most of the east side of town actually ran into each other right here. And it all came down to a head most of the time. Like literally I can think of three or four people who may have been killed right here on this sidewalk, or right here in this parking lot right here.”
17. Various of Knoxville east side community
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18. SOUNDBITE (English) Denzel Grant, Turn Up Knox executive director
“I think Knoxville will be safe when our kids are safe. And right now we're not there.”
19. Wide of Denzel Grant in Knoxville east side community
STORYLINE:
Knoxville has became one of a growing number of cities to team with researchers to develop an evidence-based plan to stop gun violence.
Funding for gun violence research continues to be just a fraction of what is spent on other leading causes of death. Still, research has "just exploded” in the last few years, said Rebecca Cunningham, a gun violence researcher at the University of Michigan.
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