When a 15-Year-Old Was Murdered in Brooklyn in July, No Moms Demanded Action. Now They Endorsed the Senator Who Failed to Take Action?
On July 17, 2024, we were all shocked and angry when Foridun Maulonou, a 15-year-old was shot at 1:00 pm on 20th Avenue and 62nd Street. (Info here and here)
The shooter was never arrested.
The senator for where the shooting happened is Iwen Chu.
On July 18th, this was Iwen Chu’s response to the murder on social media: (Seen here)
Senator Chu never shared anything information about the killer, but newspapers said it was a teenager at a local school.
It’s nine month later and the police seemed to have let the case go. We should have heard Iwen Chu advocate for justice for Foridun Maulonou.
Moms Demand Action is a group which fights for public safety. I was shocked that there wasn’t any mother from that group standing up in Brooklyn, so I wrote about the day . (See here)
In 2020, we saw the Moms Demand Action group remained silent when a man shot an AR-15 twenty-nine times at his neighbors on 82nd Street in Dyker Heights. (Info) The man was in the army, so he didn’t go to jail! (Info)
When election time comes around, some Moms from Manhattan from the “Moms Demand Action” came to Bay Ridge to rally for Max Rose, who didn’t even call for the man to be prosecuted.
Moms Demand Action endorsements in Brooklyn elections don’t mean anything if they are silent when teens die and killers are on the loose. Moms Demand Action hasn’t help politicians accountable.
Iwen Chu should be embarrassed to have posted to social media (this). She has not been a voice against violence or guns in this community,
Hugs,
marlene
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