Volume 45, No. 30
Friday, August 9, 2019
OUR WORLD IN PHOTOS GUYANA — International cricket: Aerial view of the National Stadium where India and West Indies played their third twenty20 international cricket match in Providence, Guyana, Monday, Aug 5. AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco
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Brooklyn Eagle Local
‘No more tears’: Brooklyn vigil mourns mass shootings distant and at home
Eagle photos by Mark Davis
By Mark Davis
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.
Mourners held candles in the darkened plaza. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The PHOENIX Hundreds of people gathered at a vigil Monday night at Grand Army Plaza, where local and congressional leaders spoke out in anger and pain against a surging epidemic of gun violence across the nation, and the apparent reluctance of the Trump administration to confront it. The vigil came on the heels of a recent series of mass shootings— in El Paso, Tex.; Dayton, Ohio; Gilroy, Calif.; here in Brownsville; and the latest, early Monday, in Crown Heights, in which four people were injured. Between the triumphal Grand Army Plaza arch and the nearby entrance to Prospect Park, a podium stood, surrounded by pairs of shoes filled with lit candles — each representing a life lost to gun violence. Public Advocate Jumaane Williams asked everyone who had lost a family member to gun violence to raise their hand. “I want people to see who we’re talking about here today,” he said. Hands went up all throughout the crowd. “I can’t cry no more,” shouted one woman with her hand raised. “I don’t have no more tears left.” CONTINUES ON PAGE 2.