District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and NYPD hosted second gun buyback event this year in Clinton Hill
On May 14, $200 and an iPad could be exchanged for any working handgun or assault rifle, “no questions asked” at Emmanuel Baptist Church on Lafayette Avenue. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office in coordination with the NYPD offered money in the form of a $200 bank card and an iPad for each weapon turned in. All transactions were anonymous.
Bank cards were issued as guns were unloaded in boxes or paper and plastic bags and officers on-site screened them. Identification was not required.
“As the Pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church (EBC), I am glad to partner with the Brooklyn DA’s Office, Law Enforcement, and the larger community to work to reduce gun violence. Public safety and quality of life issues are an urgent priority. Recent events in Buffalo at a supermarket and Laguna Woods at a Taiwanese church remind us that this is not merely a local matter, nor a primarily ‘Black thing,’ as the mainstream media suggests” said Rev. Anthony L. Trufant.
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