“We are standing steps away from the sight of a mass shooting,” Assemblywoman Monique Chandler-Waterman said.The legislation is meant to automatically provide mass shooting resources at the state and local level after shootings involving four or more victims. Chandler-Waterman said she hopes that in addition to public safety task forces, it will make a difference. And she’s not alone. Among Friday’s speakers were City Councilwoman Farah Louis and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.“We have to call it a mass shooting, because when people think of mass shootings, they usually think a lot of white Americans being killed. But there was a mass shooting and our black lives are just as important. The word mass shooting comes with resources and it comes with attention, and we are trying to tell you that, daily, black and brown bodies are dropping from gun violence,” Williams said.“Some people want to talk about why, where, what happened. Someone was shot. Someone was murdered. A human being. That’s it,” Chandler-Waterman said.

Police are working to uncover who pulled the trigger on four people near a Brooklyn daycare.Officials say a gunman opened fire just before 2 p.m. Saturday near East 45th Street and Troy Avenue in East Flatbush.A 27-year-old woman was shot in the stomach and a man was shot in the leg.The third victim, Emmanuel Soray, was shot in his face. He later died at the hospital.All three of the victims were found bleeding out near an apartment building.Police say they eventually got word of a fourth victim, a 33-year-old woman who had been shot and somehow got all the way to a hospital in Elizabeth, New Jersey on her own.