A Facebook video featuring kindergartner, Jeffrey Laney, urging people to end violence and violent crime has gone viral.

According to KTVI, Laney's mother, who posted the video, said she hopes that the video will affect those whose actions kill innocent children.

"We need to value life more and we need to watch what we do around these little ones," Leanndra Cheatham told KTVI.

Cheatham told CNN that her 16-year-old cousin was shot to death last month.

Read more at KTVI.

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney — pictured during a hearing Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 — has cleared the way for Georgia's State Election Board to obtain Fulton ballots and other documents from the 2020 election. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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