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‘This has destroyed
our community’
BP Adams stages vigil following
mass shooting Crown Heights
Members of Gays Against Guns, a nonviolence advocacy group, hold photos of those lost to
gun violence over the past week in Brooklyn and elsewhere. Photo by Ben Verde
BY BEN VERDE
Brooklynites gathered Monday night
to mourn the victims of a mass shooting
that claimed four lives in Crown
Heights on Oct. 12.
Borough President Eric Adams —
who organized the candlelight vigil
outside the illegal Utica Avenue
gambling den where the massacre
occurred — lamented the national
epidemic of gun-violence plaguing
communities of color, which he says
has numbed the country to acts of
senseless killing.
“We are not going to allow a mass
shooting in our community and just
f lip over the pages and act like it
did not happen,” Adams said. “This
has destroyed our community, and
we are outraged that the country
continues to be dismissive of mass
shootings in communities of color.”
Several dozen mournful Brooklynites
joined Adams and Crown
Heights Councilman Robert Cornegy
at the vigil, where they held
candles, uttered prayers, and set
out four pairs of empty shoes — one
for each victim of Saturday’s shootout.
The gun battle — which killed
four people and injured three others
at an underground gambling ring
between Pacific and Dean streets
— was the second mass shooting in
the borough within three months.
In July, two gunmen opened fire
at a block party in Brownsville —
killing one person and injuring 11
others.
Adams blasted the lack of resources
offered to predominantly
African-American communities like
Crown Heights and Brownsville in
the wake of tragedies, which he says
are treated with greater consideration
in suburban and rural areas.
“How many schools in this area received
counseling the next day?” Adams
asked. “How many family members
and residents of this community
received the necessary counseling?”
The area’s local councilman
echoed Adams’ sentiment and
called for more long-lasting reforms
to combat violent crime.
“We have to use the correct language,”
said Robert Cornegy. “Yes,
Mass Shootings, but yes violence
is now and has always been a public
health issue and when we identify
it as such we can demand the
resources — more jobs, affordable
housing, all of the things that are
contributors to violence.”
Gun violence across New York
City has risen this year compared
to last — as the number of shooting
victims has increased from 721 to
736 as of Oct. 6, when the most recent
data was available.
In Brooklyn, however, the number
of gun violence victims has decreased
over the same time frame,
from 292 to 302 — largely driven by
a decrease in violence in the southern
half of the borough.
Within Brooklyn North — a policing
precinct that encompasses
Crown Heights, Brownsville, and
other surrounding neighborhoods
— gun violence victims have increased
204 to 192 over that time
frame, which does not include the
four victims of the Oct. 12 shooting.
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