Just hours before rappers Future and 21 Savage hit the Barclays Center stage last Friday, Dec. 30, the world-famous Brooklyn arena was in a state of grief.
Mayor Eric Adams Attends the National Day of Remembrance for Gun Related Homicide Victims on Friday, December 30, 2022. Violet Mendelsund/Mayoral Photography Office
“As we wind down this year, I am charged with noting the successes of 2022—it is the responsibility of my position to highlight that we have a decrease in shootings and homicides this year over last,” said Sewell. “But that is cold comfort to those of us who have lost your mothers, your fathers, your sisters, your brothers and your friends to gun violence.”
Adams did not mince words for outside critics. “When you hear all these folks—with all this noise—living in safe communities where [there’s] no crime trying to tell us how to protect our community, you need to tell them ‘shut up,’” he said.
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