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District 45

Farah N. Louis

Flatbush, Midwood, East Flatbush, Flatlands, Marine Park, Canarsie

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Kristia Winter, Communications Director
KWinter@council.nyc.gov, 718-629-2900
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BROOKLYN, NY—Council Member Farah Louis (D-Brooklyn), Vice Co-Chair of the Black Latino and Asian Caucus (BLAC), released the following statement after a 16-year-old boy and son of a close friend was found with a gunshot wound to the chest at a Popeye’s restaurant in Canarsie.

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CONTACT:
Kristia Winter, Communications Director
KWinter@council.nyc.gov, 718-629-2900

BROOKLYN, NYCouncil Member Farah Louis (D-Brooklyn), Vice Co-Chair of the Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus (BLAC), released the following statement after the arrest of an alleged suspect in the murder of 17-year-old Sunset Park High School student, Derek Trujillo. He was the victim of gun violence during the pandemic while in Flatbush. Derek died from a gunshot wound to his chest at Kings County Hospital, where his 16-year-old friend was treated for a gunshot wound to his hand after the robbery attempt last October.

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Kristia Winter, Communications Director
KWinter@council.nyc.gov, 718-629-2900

NEW YORK – Today, Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn)Co-Chair of New York City Council Women’s Caucus and Vice Co-Chair of the Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus, issued the following statement after a trio of men attacked and robbed a Harlem mother near a liquor store before one of the alleged suspects brutalized her.

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“The lawsuit filed today by New York State Attorney Letitia James confirms the painful truth that we have known for years. Members of the NYPD have persistently used excessive force without hesitation or meaningful consequence –  particularly against Black and Brown New Yorkers. It is shameful that peaceful protesters pursuing racial justice experienced unthinkable violence inflicted by those sworn to protect and serve eerily similar to the events that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement.

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On National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, recognized annually on January 11, we heighten the importance of education and advocacy to help end labor and sexual exploitation.

Additionally, we wear blue in support of survivors and victims unknown but not forgotten.  

Our communities are in a state of crisis. Yet, the outrage that one would expect has never surfaced because the data that would help us understand the gravity of the situation is non-existent.

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CONTACT:
Kristia Winter, Communications Director
KWinter@council.nyc.gov, 718-629-2900

NEW YORK — Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn) issued the following statement after two separate shootings in Flatbush killed 62-year-old Daniel Romulus and wounded a woman listed in stable condition at Kings County Hospital. The shootings, which occurred on Saturday, were 2.5 hours and about a mile apart.

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CONTACT:
Kristia Winter, Communications Director
KWinter@council.nyc.gov, 718-629-2900

BROOKLYN, NY ⁠– Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn) issued the following statement after 24-year-old Saqueo Mejia, a dump truck driver for Brooklyn-based Prime Junk Removal was killed when he was pinned between two of the trucks in Flatbush. The accident is under investigation by the NYPD.

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CONTACT:
Kristia Winter, Communications Director
KWinter@council.nyc.gov, 718-629-2900

BROOKLYN, NY — Today, tons of debris and garbage was removed from an illegal dumping site in East Flatbush by the Department of Sanitation, in conjunction with Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn).

The massive cleanup of the abandoned car wash was a culmination to the interagency walk-through that she organized on Monday to address the illegal disposal of household and business trash along the Farragut Road corridor.

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CONTACT:
Kristia Winter, Communications Director
KWinter@council.nyc.gov, 718-629-2900

BROOKLYN, NY — Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn), co-chair of the Women’s Caucus, issued the following statement after the suspect in the murder of 32-year-old Jamel Copeland in Flatbush was apprehended by the NYPD’s Regional Fugitive Task Force in Virginia.

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