(30 Jul 2025)
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New York – 29 July 2025
1. Officials gathered for the vigil
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Tisch, New York Police Commissioner:
"Officer Didarul Islam was a New York City police officer who represents the very best of what our city has to offer. He served the city the quiet strength and unwavering purpose. He didn’t ask for attention. He didn’t ask for praise. He simply showed up, tour after tour, and did the work that holds this city together."
3. Vigil attendee holding a sign in remembrance of police officer Didarul Islam
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Adams, New York Mayor:
"This senseless act of violence, as the police commissioner and I walked through the building and saw the blood trail and the videos, and the level of violence that I have not witnessed at that level before."
5. Vigil attendee holding a sign in remembrance of police officer Didarul Islam
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Adams, New York Mayor:
"I worked as a mailroom, a stockroom assistant at 345 Park Avenue as a young man, and to have to walk through and see the remnants of violence of that level tore at me. And then I reflected on 2001, after the terrorist attack in the city, and a group of Muslims officers came to me, because they were being victimized because of the attack, because of their faith and belief. I joined them and we moved forward to start an organization that recruited Muslim officers to be part of the New York City Police Department, and their ranks in numbers have grown throughout the years, and they bring with them a level of faith, a level of family, a level commitment, a level of dedication that we all should be proud of because it is a signature of who we are as a city. This is New York."
7. Adams speaking at the vigil
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Adams, New York Mayor:
"We cannot respond to senseless gun laws through vigils. It must be responded through legislation. It is time to turn the corner of a society where automatic weapons are as easy to get as a cell phone. We need to rethink who we are as a society, that there is a level of comfortability to carry an illegal weapon of this magnitude. Yes, we can say we the safest big city in America. Yes, we can talk about what we have done, the government and the police commissioner and I. Yes, we have broken records of the lowest number of shootings and homicides in recorded history of the city. Yes, we can talk about the 23 almost thousand guns we removed off the streets. But that is not a consolation for the families who’ve lost their loved ones inside 345 Park Avenue.”
9. Various of faith leaders praying and singing
10. Various of flower arrangements
STORYLINE:
New York Mayor Eric Adams attended a multi-faith vigil on Tuesday evening for the four people who were shot dead inside a Manhattan office tower a day earlier.
“To have to walk through and see the remnants of violence at that level, tore at me,” Adams told mourners as he recalled working in the mailroom of the building as a young man.
Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and other faith leaders delivered prayers at the gathering held at a park about a dozen blocks from where the shooting took place.
Both Adams and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke of the need for stronger gun laws. Hochul said guns designed to kill people on battlefields shouldn’t be in New York buildings.
“We cannot respond to senseless gun laws through vigils,” Adams said.
He accused the league of hiding the dangers of brain injuries linked to contact sports.
An NFL employee was badly wounded but survived.
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