In various ways, Sacramento lawmakers have recognized the Dec. 2 terror attack in San Bernardino since the Legislature reconvened this month.
The state Assembly’s interfaith prayer service this week focused on the attack, with prayers offered for the city, Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown said Friday, Jan. 15.
Earlier this month, state lawmakers honored the victims of the Dec. 2 terror attack at the Inland Regional Center. Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, read the names of the 14 who died as the Senate adjourned in their memory, including five of her constituents.
“The shock and the grief (that) the entire Inland Empire community has suffered over the past month and will suffer for a long time simply has no words,” she said on the Senate floor.
Brown and Assemblyman Marc Steinorth, R-Rancho Cucamonga, adjourned the Assembly on Jan. 7 in honor of the victims. Steinorth asked his colleagues to wear lapel pins given to them in memory of the 14 dead, whose names he read with Brown on the Assembly floor.
“This affected not only our county, not only our city. It affected the state. It affected the nation. In fact it affected the whole world,” Brown said. “Our community will never forget (those who died). It’s been a very trying time for us and we are trying to heal.”
