City officials portray homicide as public health epidemic

Dorothy Johnson-Speight, founder and executive director for Mothers In Charge, said homicides should be treated with all the seriousness of diseases, the Ebola virus and other public health threats

City officials and residents who have lost loved ones to street violence began work on Thursday afternoon to portray homicide as a public health epidemic.

A news conference at City Hall featured remarks from Mayor James Kenney, Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, state Sen. Vincent Hughes, and Rodney Muhammad, president of the NAACP Philadelphia branch, and other gun-control advocates, including Mothers In Charge.

Read the full story in The Philadelphia Tribune: City officials portray homicide as public health epidemic