Akilah Sherrill's remembers the day in 1992 when the Bloods and Crips gangs in his Watts neighborhood agreed to a ceasefire.
We had a barbecue.
It was like it became a family reunion.
I mean, we had a three decade war, you know, so the release was just extraordinary.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed world leaders at the Munich Security Conference just a short time ago,
insisting the U.S.
is not pulling away from NATO and saying Washington sees as stronger Europe as a good thing.
I see it reported yesterday in some places, oh, the Europeans are very upset.
They're going to be less dependent on America now.
We don't want Europe to be dependent.
We're not asking Europe to be a vassal of the United States.
We want to be your partner.
We want to work with you.
We want to work with our allies.
We want to work in cooperation with you."
Rubio also stressed that stronger European militaries would strengthen the NATO alliance.
World leaders are meeting in Munich this weekend as the war in Ukraine and other global issues keep tensions high.
Civil rights advocates are raising the alarm about the Trump administration's plan for major cuts to this year's field test of the U.S.