Seattle NAACP To Hold Event Remembering The Victims Of Gun Violence – The Seattle Medium

The Seattle King County NAACP and the King County Martin Luther King Jr. The Commemoration Committee (MLKCC) will host the second annual “They Will By no means Be Forgotten” occasion at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in Seattle this Saturday June 11 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 

This yr’s occasion shall be honoring the Buffalo Ten and different victims of gun violence, calling for better efforts to take away unlawful weapons and ban assault weapons.  The horrific shootings of current weeks present the necessity for wise gun legal guidelines and a tradition of gun security.  The Seattle King County NAACP and MLKCC are calling out gun violence as a public well being disaster and demand a better dedication and efforts to eradicate gun violence and permit the communities to heal. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell would be the keynote speaker. 

A current Pew Analysis research discovered that the highest concern for 80% of Black People is gun violence of their communities.  In accordance with the King County Prosecuting Legal professional’s Workplace an awesome variety of capturing victims had been male (85%) and folks of shade (81%), and about half had been Black or African American (48%).  Greater than 1 / 4 had been between 18 and 24 years outdated.  2021 noticed 612 shootings in Seattle, practically double the typical earlier than the pandemic and the worst since 1990.

The reminiscence of these misplaced shall be  preserved by calling out their names, posting commemorative markers, and permitting the tales of their lives to be made recognized and never forgotten.