This Empty Casket Will Sit in Front of Brooklyn Borough Hall for a Week

Not to be upstaged by Chuck and Amy Schumer’s gun-control press conference in Manhattan on Monday morning, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams held his own dramatic presser on recent gun violence outside Brooklyn Borough Hall.

Adams marched through a thick crowd of residents and reporters as he carried the front end of an empty casket — a symbol of the lives stolen by recent gun violence in Brooklyn.

“The good people of this city do not have to argue, yell, and scream at each other,” Adams reportedly told the crowd. “We are on the same side.”

The coffin will sit outside Brooklyn Borough Hall for five days straight, according to Adams’ office.

The effort is intended to engage Brooklynites in serious conversations about gun violence following a recent spate of bloodshed in the borough, including nine people shot at a party in East New York earlier today and a fatal shooting early Saturday in Canarsie.

In his new ”Take Five to Stay Alive” campaign, Adams is asking Brooklynites to help fight gun violence by following these five steps:

Shootings throughout Brooklyn this weekend killed three and wounded approximately 20 others.

Donnell Smith, 24, was shot to death early Saturday morning outside the Glenwood Houses in Carnarsie, according to the NYPD.

Then, on Sunday morning at 2:20 a.m., police say they found a 46-year-old man dead and riddled with bullets outside the Whitman Houses in Fort Greene.

Not even two hours later around 3:45 a.m., a 15-year-old boy reportedly took a fatal gunshot to the stomach in ”a multi-car drive-by attack” in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, near Flatbush Avenue and Lincoln Road.

The weekend’s highest-casualty shooting came when two unidentified suspects fired indiscriminately into a backyard house party at 1140 Stanley Avenue in East New York. Thirteen people were wounded in the shooting.

Although the New York Times points out that NYC’s shooting rate is at about the same level it was at this time last year — even a bit lower — residents who live nearby this weekend’s crime scenes in Brooklyn tell the New York Post they blame Mayor Bill De Blasio for what feels like a return to the ”bad old days of ‘Crooklyn.’”

Photo courtesy of Eric Adams/Twitter.