![]() ![]() “And that is not the message that many have been calling on when they talk about reform.” “It’s horrific to have someone intentionally shoot a police officer it’s the wrong message,” he said. The Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams, worried that the attack would “tarnish” the campaign against police brutality that has swept the city. “Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown in connection with any violence or killing of police is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases,” he said. Al Sharpton, who has been an outspoken backer of the protests in recent weeks, condemned the attack. The shootings seemed poised to cool the protests of recent months. He added, “That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor.” “There’s blood on many hands tonight - those that incited violence on the street under the guise of protests, that tried to tear down what New York City police officers did every day," the head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, Patrick Lynch, said outside Woodhull Hospital. Video posted online showed dozens of officers turning their backs to the mayor as he walked into anews conference on Saturday night. de Blasio and rank-and-file officers even deeper. ![]() The killing seemed to drive the wedge between Mr. Bratton said that the attack on Saturday was the seventh time since 1972 that partners in the Police Department had been killed at the same time. That killing shook the city, sparking an escalation in the war on drugs and an aggressive crackdown on violent crime. The city has seen roughly 300 killings so far this year, a number so low as to be unheard-of two decades ago.īut the shooting on Saturday seemed reminiscent of decades past, when the city was mired in an epidemic of drugs and violence and, in 1988, a police officer was shot while he sat alone in his patrol car guarding the home of a man who had testified in a drug case. Cries for the police to use more restraint have been buttressed by historic drops in violent crime. Some union leaders suggested the mayor had sent a message that police officers were to be feared. He made statements on social media suggesting that he planned to kill police officers and was angered about the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases. Brinsley, who had a long rap sheet of crimes that included robbery and carrying a concealed gun, is believed to have shot his former girlfriend near Baltimore before traveling to Brooklyn, the authorities said. The police recovered a silver semiautomatic handgun, Mr. Brinsley, 28, then fled down the street and onto the platform of a nearby subway station, where he killed himself as officers closed in. ![]() Brinsley shot several rounds into the heads and upper bodies of the officers, who never drew their weapons, the authorities said. The officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were in the car near Myrtle and Tompkins Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the shadow of a tall housing project when the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, walked up to the passenger-side window and assumed a firing stance, Police Commissioner William J. The suspect then committed suicide with the same gun, the authorities said. Two police officers sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn were shot at point-blank range and killed on Saturday afternoon by a man who, officials said, had traveled to the city from Baltimore vowing to kill officers. ![]()
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