Latest / OneLegUpAlex Media / Alex at Six Highlights LI Pizza Strong Taking Place 4-17-24 as Pizzerias Back the Blue
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- 0:00Hey, everybody on this Alex at six I'm Alex Garrett, and tonight want
- 0:04to remind you, if you don't know already, that tomorrow is Long Island
- 0:08Pizza Strong. That's right. April seventeenth, pizzeri Is a cross Long Island
- 0:14will unite to support the police community, law enforcement community, and wake up
- 0:19the tragic death of New York City Police officer and posthumously named Detective Jonathan Miller.
- 0:26LI Pizza Strong aims to raise funds for the family of Jonathan Diller,
- 0:31Detective Diller, and to support three important organizations whose missions are to provide much
- 0:37new support for law enforcement officers and first responders. Tomorrow, participating pizzeri Is
- 0:44will donate five dollars from every pie sold and one hundred percent of the proceeds
- 0:49will be distributed to the family of Officer Jonathan Diller, Beyond the Badge,
- 0:54New York Project, THNK a Cop and the Silver Shields Foundation. And I've
- 1:00been in touch with the organizers of this Long Island Pizza Strong event as they
- 1:03are going to back the blue donating at once again to the family of Officer
- 1:07Jonathan Diller. Beyond the Badge Project, think A cop and the Silver Shield
- 1:12Foundation, and hopefully before the event really kicks off tomorrow you'll get to hear
- 1:18from the organizers. I've asked them to send in a couple of comments so
- 1:22I could post it right here on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network. But I
- 1:26want to release this tonight to let you know tomorrow Long Island Pizza Strong,
- 1:30including if you're in the Port Washington area and you listen to this podcast,
- 1:34because my fiancee and I are out there. Yes, Carlos Pizzeria is participating,
- 1:40as is my friend Stevie Onnibene's family owned pizzeria, Nona Bella's so very
- 1:49excited that they are supporting this cause. It's a great cause and one hopes
- 1:57that maybe with all this awareness and support of law enforcement, it could help
- 2:04Albany finally change laws so that those who have twenty plus or more prior arrests
- 2:10are not out on the streets to kill more NYPD cops. Just a thought,
- 2:17all opinion on that, But tomorrow a great cause NYPD will be supported
- 2:24through Long Island Pizza Strong and for more you can visit their instagram at LI
- 2:30Pizza Strong. All the best to all the participating pizzeria is from across Long
- 2:37Island and grab yourself a slice. It's for a good cause. Tomorrow April
- 2:43seventeenth, twenty twenty four.