Protesters To City: Declare Climate Emergency

Jayleen Nieves, a 14-year-old freshman at Metropolitan Business Academy, leaned into the below-freezing temperatures to entreat the city to pass the resolution.

“I don’t want people to get hurt by our mistakes,” she said. “Climate change is destroying this planet, and some people are choosing to ignore that.”

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