“I’ve been to too many shootings of kids,” NYPD Assistant Commissioner of Youth Strategies Kevin O’Connor told amNewYork Metro as he led the charge. “We can talk about a mother that was walking her baby in a stroller on 95th Street and Lexington, shot and killed by a jealous ex-boyfriend. Now there’s too many cases to talk about. But I’ve been doing this for nearly 35 years and it doesn’t get any easier.
Congress enacted the National Day of Remembrance for homicide victims in 2007, and since then, O’Connor has helped set up the local remembrance walks as way for the NYPD to stand alongside the community in mourning of the lives taken far too soon, as well as hold space with advocacy organizations which are available to help counsel those suffering grief.
Tay’s family walked with signs, clearly still carrying unimaginable pain with every stride. For the Tay family this pain is so very fresh, having lost the pre-teen in May. But according to those who have suffered similar losses decades in the past, it doesn’t get any easier.Ella Thomas of Harlem Mothers Fathers S.A.V.E–a violence prevention organization–lost her two sons during the 1990s and she strives on to honor them but hoping to prevent the deaths of others.
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