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There were enough events that happened over the weekend that fit the definition of “shocking”. People in Australia’s Bondi Beach are still trying to comprehend the father and son duo who opened fire on a Hannukah celebration that killed 15 people and wounded 29 others. In Rhode Island, two students at prestigious Brown University were gunned down and nine were injured after someone burst into a roomful of students taking a final exam; Providence police are still searching for the gunman. Here in New York, six teens were wounded after a pair of shooters opened fire at a Sweet 16 party in Brooklyn. It made Natalie Migliore wonder: do New Yorkers feel safe and secure with the holiday season upon us? 710 WOR’s Beat on the Street reporter asked Monday morning commuters that question at Rockefeller Center in her latest appearance on the Mendte in the Morning program.
Migliore found one man who was pretty confident in the city’s resiliency, saying, “I’m pretty confident, for the most part. I haven’t personally experienced anything that would make me believe that things are maybe degraded more now or something over time; I love New York City.” Yet, when asked the same question a minute later, a woman said she had her doubts the police could handle a large situation: “It’s a lot. It’s, uh, big and very overwhelming, so I’m sure that just one institution is not enough, I mean, they say we have the biggest, the biggest of all the police, but it’s a lot.”
Ultimately, Migliore found most New Yorkers saying you can’t worry about dark things happening around every corner, such as this gentleman: “Just go about and do everything normal, that’s it, you know. You (can’t) worry about what’s gonna happen. If something’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen no matter what it is because this is New York. You don’t know what it’s going to be.”
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