In the following sentence, taken from the text: And an 18-year-old black man from Chicago told the president that his brother’s life had been lost, as well as the lives of “countless family and friends” to gun violence, the boldfaced fragment shows:
A grammatically accurate structure, except for the reported speech.
A past perfect being used as a result of the reported speech
A passive voice and a past perfect being used as a result of the reported speech.
Passive voice and past perfect being used redundantly.
A grammatically inaccurate structure in an informal context.