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Police pay their respect outside the Woodhull Hospital as two Police ambulances carrying bodies of the fallen heroes head to Bellevue Hospital.
Two uniformed NYPD officers were shot dead Saturday afternoon as they sat in their marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner — in what investigators believe was a crazed gunman’s assassination-style mission to avenge Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
“No warning, no provocation — they were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniform,” Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 3 p.m. when they were shot point-blank in the head by lone gunmanIsmaaiyl Brinsley, 28, who had addresses in Georgia, Maryland and Brooklyn.
Moments after killing the two officers, Brinsley, too, was dead, having turned his gun on himself on a nearby subway platform as cops closed in.
Liu, 32, a newlywed of only two months, had seven years on the force; Ramos, 40, dad to two sons, had two years on the job.
Brinsley was already a fugitive, suspected of putting a bullet in his ex-girlfriend’s abdomen at her residence in Baltimore at 5:45 a.m. Saturday, Bratton said.
By early Saturday afternoon — just three hours before shooting Liu and Ramos — vile anti-police threats were posted to Brinsley’s Instagram page. The threats referenced the recent police-involved killings of Garner and Brown.
“I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today,” a person believed to be the gunman wrote. “They Take 1 Of Ours . Let’s Take 2 of Theirs,” the post continued, ending with, “This May Be My Final Post.”The Instagram page included an image of a silver automatic handgun with a wooden handle.
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Full story http://nypost.com/2014/12/20/2-nypd-cops-shot-execution-style-in-brooklyn/
Why weren't these Officers honored by the news? Oh wait they are Police Officers and White, they must be complete evil then.
[spoiler]To those who don't know me. I made this thread to show how stupid it is to make all these recent shootings about race[/spoiler]
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Yea other than fox news, CNN and MSNBC and nearly all local news stations it hasn't been on anything!! Get real OP. This guy hadn't been to a single rally or posted anything about Ferguson or the protests on his FB. He seems to be a mentally disturbed man. Not a politically motivated one
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You clearly don't watch or read anything . Because that sh*t's been everywhere for the last 48 hours. Stop being an asshat.
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[quote]Why weren't these Officers honored by the news?[/quote]Did you even bother to turn on a tv? It's all over the place. Stop making things up.
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An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
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[quote]they were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniform[/quote]Nu-uh. Them polices were hurtin ma boys, it was police brutality! They are good boys who went to college and were spreading the word of our lord.
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Be jade it doesn't relate to the people only the cops.
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Edited by pastafarian : 12/22/2014 10:07:13 PMNypd officers turned there back on mayor deblasio as a sign disrespect when he went up to speak addressing the matter. Garner wouldn't have had officers called on him if it weren't for the new law deblasio passed making selling loose cigarettes against the law, since sellers would make more untaxed money that way. If the law would have stayed the same garner wouldn't have died from a chokehold and those 2 nypd officers wouldn't have been shot as collateral. 3 people died over some petty crime that was outlawed to make more money for the state, ridiculous when you actually think about it.
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Dude, this has totally Been on the news.
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What news stations are you talking about?? Lol this story is everywhere.
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They were. On like every news station.
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Just saw this on the news this morning.
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I saw this on the news yesterday....
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Those names indicate that one was Asian and one was Latin/Spanish. Dude only killed himself because he realized he didn't kill white cops ha.
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Because policemen being killed is part of the risk in their job and it wont invoke anyone to tart anything. Thus the networks cant get money off of the story and therefore they don't bother.
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I heard about it
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Police are corrupt and often get away with murder like they did with Eric Garner, however, it is still wrong to murder them as well. That's doesn't mean they were good people, just that they deserve the same rights as everyone else and should be held accountable just like everyone else. The only time you should kill police or anyone in general is if they are threatening your safety.
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Um. One of their names indicated Asian descent and the other one shows Hispanic descent.
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Edited by Şpøöký ßëåř: 12/21/2014 6:48:09 PM> Be OP > Claim story didn't make news > Post news article
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Not sure if stupid... or genius
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Ummm it's all over the news :/)/ Aside from that these stupid sons of bitches need it quit conforming to their stereotypes. "I'm black and mad about Michael Brown so ima shoot some pigs." If people keep acting like the stereotypical ideal for their race then they further develop prejudice against their race.
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President Obama made a statement about this earlier, as well as multiple NYC officials.
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Edited by qy: 12/21/2014 6:57:49 PMThere are some good blacks, and there are some bad ones. There are some good cops, and there are some bad ones. Just like with anything else. The idea that all cops are bad and black people have to stick together is the exact kind of prejudgemental oversimplified thinking that these people are standing against. Also, this made plenty of news sites.
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-blam!- the mainstream media and their greedy agendas
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It was on the news, you just have a sore butt and a victim complex.
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I heard about it so it did make the news
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Can everyone just agree that killing unarmed people who aren't struggling is wrong, no matter what race they are? Can we agree that people like the gunman mentioned in the OP have a mental illness and are not representative of the majority of people? Can we agree on this, then actually fix the problems?