Adams Gets Bridge Multicultural Unity Award
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams last night received the Unity Award from the Bridge Multicultural & Advocacy Project at the organization’s second anniversary and annual holiday party at its 1894 Flatbush Avenue headquarters.
The party drew more than 200 Jews, Muslims, Christians and Hindus, blacks , whites, asians, browns who danced together to live music while sharing food and mingling in the spirt of humanity.
In receiving his award, Adams noted that what makes American great was its hyphen between how we identify ourselves. It doesn’t matter if you are African-American, Jamaican-American, Muslim-American or Jewish-American, we are one on unity, Adams said.
Bridge founder Mark Meyer Appel founded the organization with the mission of uniting and energizing people of every racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious group across New York City and the United States. To address social issues facing society today and to advocate for transformational social change as “ONE” united community to promote and advocate government to educate society as a combined unified voice.
Also on hand at the event were Public Advocate Letitia James, State Sen. Jesse Hamilton, Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte and City Council Members Jumaane Williams and Mathieu Eugene.
De Blasio Unveils Plaque For Two Slain Police Officers
Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday paid homage to slain Police Detectives Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were killed one year ago on the corner of Myrtle and Thompkins Avenue in Beford-Stuyvesant, by laying wreaths and unveiling plaques where they were killed.
Adams, Persaud, Simon Announce Ammo Control Legislation
Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, State Senator Roxanne J. Persaud (Canarsie, Brownsville, Mill Basin) and Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon (Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill) announced yesterday they will introduce state legislation on ammunition control.
The measure in an effort to address a series of deadly mass shootings nationwide that includes this month’s terror attack in San Bernardino, where authorities have determined that thousands of rounds were purchased in the lead-up to the assault.
Adams, a NYPD veteran and key figure in the passage of the NY Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act, worked alongside Persaud and Simon, the measure’s lead sponsors, to craft the bills as they prepare for the upcoming legislative session in Albany. Along with leading anti-gun violence advocates, they spoke about the need for New York to be safer from unchecked mass shooters.
“There is a duty to act, a responsibility to put public safety first, in the face of the blood-soaked carnage of mass shootings, made possible by the calculated and unrestricted stockpiling of thousands of deadly ammunition rounds,” said Adams. “When terrorists seek – and succeed – to take advantage of our loose laws to murder innocent people, it is clear we as a nation need to change course. Rational ammunition control is something that every New Yorker can agree on following San Bernardino, Colorado Springs, and the hundreds of mass shootings that have happened in America this year alone.”
Under the proposal the New York State Penal Law would be amended to prevent gun dealers from selling ammunition for a firearm to anyone unauthorized to have such a weapon, regardless of the weapon type. Currently only pistols and revolvers are specifically regulated, creating a loophole for those seeking to purchase ammunition for assault weapons.
Additionally penalties for violating these laws would be increased to puit more teeth into the law.
“We cannot continue to sit back while experiencing increasing acts of gun violence,” said Persaud. “Limiting the quantity and duration between purchases of ammunition is one step in preventing someone with criminal intent from easily accessing large quantities of ammunition. By placing this barrier, we will save lives.”
“If I have a cold I can’t buy Sudafed without ID, but I can walk into any gun shop and walk out with enough bullets to arm a small army without showing any kind of ID,” said Simon. “I can buy any kind of bullets regardless of what kind of gun I own. I don’t even have to own a gun to stock up on bullets. Nothing stops me from having friends buy even more bullets for me. The sky is the limit. The San Bernardino shooters had 6,000 rounds of ammunition. We need this legislation so that cannot happen here.”
Golden Raises For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Bay Ridge State Senator Martin J. Golden today will join Pietro Scarso and his parents, Manni and Dayna Scarso, at a press event to celebrate the “PJ’s for PJ” fundraising event organized to raise key research dollars to end DMD (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy).
The Scarso Family, along with the students and faculty of the early childhood school, will be wearing pajamas at the press event to help raise awareness and funds. The organization has raised over $1 million dollars to fund research and trials of the drug Eteplirsen in an effort find a cure for DMD and merit Federal Drug Administration approval.
The event is slated for 1 p.m. today at “Stepping Stones The Next Step,” 9321 Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn.
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