Harlem 'Peace Walk' To Memorialize Police Shooting Victims

HARLEM, NY — Community advocates and political candidates will march through Harlem on Tuesday to memorialize the victims of recent police shootings across the country.

They are taking to the streets to memorialize Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed on April 11 by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn., and Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old boy killed by a Chicago Police Department officer on March 29 — as well as "so many other victims of police brutality," organizers said.

The "Community Peace Walk" will begin 5 p.m. Tuesday at the corner of 125th Street and Old Broadway, continuing to the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building.

It was organized by Stacy Lynch and Athena Moore, candidates for City Council in West Harlem's District 7 and Central Harlem's District 9, respectively.

Fellow District 7 candidates Maria Ordoñez, Marti Allen-Cummings, Corey Ortega and Shaun Abreu have all said they plan to attend as well.

Speakers will include Assemblymember Inez Dickens, Rev. Shon T. Adkins of the Antioch Baptist Church, and leaders of the anti-violence groups Street Corner Resources and East Harlem SAVE, among others.

Protests in New York against the killings of Wright and Toledo have already drawn hundreds.

Join us & local community leaders as we walk in remembrance of Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, and the countless other victims of police brutality.

The Community Peace Walk will be on Tuesday, April 20th at 5pm.

125th St. & Old Broadway Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building pic.twitter.com/03V6AIqodg
— Stacy R. Lynch (@lynchfornyc7) April 16, 2021