{"id":13042,"date":"2025-10-23T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/13042\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:50:11","slug":"brooklyn-das-hispanic-heritage-bash-draws-hundreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/13042\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn DA\u2019s Hispanic heritage bash draws hundreds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>EAST WILLIAMSBURG \u2014 Mexican restaurant, Viva Toro, was packed from stem to stern on the final day of Hispanic History Month<\/a>, courtesy of\u00a0 Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez<\/a> and his team. Several hundred guests acknowledged three prominent Latino leaders the evening of Oct. 15.<\/p>\n

The lively three-hour celebration, which consisted of food, drink, entertainment and dancing, honored Mark Vazquez, the first Latino NYPD assistant chief for Patrol Borough Brooklyn North; Henry Garrido, District Council 37 executive director; and Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition.<\/p>\n

Ceremony co-hosts Jose Interiano, Blue Zone deputy bureau chief and president of the Eric Gonzalez Alliance for Justice, and Katrina Gomez, senior Violent Criminal Enterprise Bureau ADA and vice president of the Eric Gonzalez Alliance for Justice, collectively welcomed the standing room only crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A beautiful mosaic<\/p>\n

Gonzalez, who is the first elected Latino district attorney in the nearly 250-year history of New York State, told the Brooklyn Eagle that the purpose of the night\u2019s event is to celebrate the beautiful mosaic of Latino people in the borough of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also a time to bring community together and show them that law enforcement is not their enemy,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to work with them to produce peace, safety and fairness, and that\u2019s what today is about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonzalez pointed out that, while the DA\u2019s office<\/a> has hosted Hispanic Heritage<\/a> events before, they have been considerably smaller, and this is the first time it has been opened up to the community at large.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis started out as an internal event,\u201d Gonzalez recalled, saying that this time they wanted the public to know how much he and his office care.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn\u2019s safest year?<\/p>\n

Gonzalez also gave a rousing speech to the crowd, in which he touched upon both public safety and immigration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we had the fewest number of people ever shot in the history of Brooklyn,\u201d Gonzalez emphasized.\u00a0 \u201cAnd this year, I believe, will be the safest year in the borough\u2019s history!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

With regard to immigration, Gonzalez underlined that immigrant communities are \u201ctruly the backbone of our society.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are our dreamers \u2014 the living proof of America\u2019s promise,\u201d he said. \u201cOur families came here for a better opportunity for themselves and for their children. I\u2019m the beneficiary of that, as are so many of you. We will continue to fight to make sure our immigrants feel safe in Brooklyn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST WILLIAMSBURG \u2014 Mexican restaurant, Viva Toro, was packed from stem to stern on the final day of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,5531,5532,100,99,3308,5533,10071,10072,10073,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-district-attorney","tag-brooklyn-district-attorneys-office","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-daily-bulletin","tag-eric-gonzalez","tag-hispanic-heritage-latino-heritage-latin-american-latinx","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","tag-hispanic-heritage-month-event","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}