“I would guess that the values of most Americans is that we do need to get these weapons off of our streets. For most of the mayors of this country, it's not a question of if this happens, but when will this happen.” LatinoVoicesWTTW
“I'll never forget coming up on Port Clinton Square and seeing the bodies there and looking and trying to see if one of them was my wife,” Tapia recalled. “And suddenly in the panic and the fear I looked up and there she was standing all alone … And we had sort of embrace of our lives.”
“About 25% of our schoolchildren are Latino, and Highwood and Highland Park really view each other more as more than sister communities, but as one community,” Rotering said. “And to that end, I feel it's very important that people recognize that the Latino community has been impacted just as hard as the rest of the non-Latino community. We know that folks in Waukegan in North Chicago and Highwood are needing services just as much as people who live in Highland Park.
“That was one step that I took for my own health and my health of my family, but also I needed to be strong along with the mayor and the rest of the city leaders to comfort and support our citizenry and I realized as I was there that I needed to be a role model about getting the help because I really needed it,” he said. “I was as devastated as everybody else, as traumatized as everybody else.
“I think we need a national ban on weapons that were built and designed for mass destruction in combat. We as a city banned assault weapons in 2013, in the wake of Sandy Hook, recognizing that this devastation was all over our country. But Highland Park isn’t an island,” Rotering said. “And so we reflected the values of our community. But I would guess that the values of most Americans is that we do need to get these weapons off of our streets.
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