Witness the Aftermath of Police Shooting in Brooklyn
Police commissioner William J. Bratton visited the makeshift memorial
at the Brooklyn crime scene Sunday. A candlelight vigil took place in
Harlem. President Obama also offered his condolences to Bratton over
phone from his vacation in Hawaii, and Jeh C. Johnson, the head of the
Department of Homeland Security, visited the precinct where the slain
officers worked.
“They were assassinated — targeted for their uniform, and for the
responsibility they embraced: to keep the people of this city safe,”
Bratton wrote in a message to all 35,000 members of the department. “Be
safe.”
Jaden, the 13-year-old son of slain Officer Rafael Ramos, wrote on
his Facebook wall: “This is the worst day of my life. It’s horrible that
someone gets shot dead just for being a police officer. Everyone says
they hate cops but they are the people that they call for help.”
The shootings also came at a time of tension between the police,
particularly the unions, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, which was
especially apparent on Saturday, as several officers turned their backs on the Mayor as he held a news conference.
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