Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn (D-Prospect Park South-Flatbush), who is also the chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, said, “The news coming out of Haiti evokes memories of the 2010 quake that shook Haiti and left the world aghast. What’s troubling is that this is only the latest tragedy in what has become a terrible trifecta: the assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse, a worsening COVID-19 epidemic, and now, what is possibly the most powerful earthquake in the nation’s history. Read more.