God help us!
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday downplayed the two murders at the West Indian Day parade — bringing God into the conversation as he noted even more people were killed there last year.
“Given the concentration of people and the celebration, if God said, ‘Would you make the deal of having that every year?’ I’d give it some thought,” Hizzoner said in touting a decrease in violence from Labor Day weekend 2011.
There were four homicides this year, versus 12 in 2011; 23 shooting victims compared with 74 last year; and seven shooting victims Monday, down from 16 last year, he said.
One of Monday’s fatal victims, Mallinckrodt “Marley” Leandre, 27, of upstate Monroe, didn’t even want to go to the parade, but was talked into it by his pals.
“My son died like a dog on the floor,” said his heartbroken mom, Ketelle Sabbat.
He was stabbed as the Hatian float — the parade’s last — went by and a fight broke out between marchers and revelers on the sidelines.
Meanwhile, cops busted a Brooklyn thug for allegedly stabbing another man to death with a pair of scissors after the parade.
Gabriel Hernandez, 21, of 177 Sands St. in Vinegar Hill was charged with murder and weapons possession in the death of Bronx man Nifrido Veras, 26.
Sources said the victim was stabbed in the neck at 6:30 p.m. during a fight outside the Sing Wah Kitchen on St. Johns Place, just two blocks from the parade route.