“Now we have to look beyond this tragedy because our city is at a pivotal moment,” de Blasio said, before paraphrasing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “In moments of suffering or difficulty, there are two ways we can respond: We can react with bitterness and division, and we can be trapped by the sins of our past – or we can transform the suffering into progress, we can find redemption, we can use a moment like this to turn it into something better, to move ourselves forward.”