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Law Students Walkout To Demand Action On Gun Violence In America

Did students at your law school participate in the walkout?

As current law students, and future lawyers and policy workers, we the students of Brooklyn Law School felt it is important to stand with you in the fight to end public mass shootings and put an end to gun violence.

— Héctor A. Meléndez-Franco, a student at Brooklyn Law School, in words delivered on the steps of Borough Hall on during yesterday’s National Student Walkout for gun control. “Law school students often skip class, but they don’t often skip class for a purpose like this,” said Dean Nicholas Allard, who joined students at the rally.


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