NY mayor calls on public to "step forward" if they know of police under threat
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STORY: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was out in force Monday (December 22) seeking to ease tensions with the police force as he called on the public to report any suspicions that a police officer is under threat.
"The attack on these two officers, the assassination of these two officers was an attack on the City of New York as a whole," de Blasio said. "We cannot tolerate such attacks. Anyone with the ability to stop them, must step forward," he added.
The U.S. Justice Department condemned the attack in which a 28-year-old man with a troubled history ambushed two officers while they were sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn, apparently to avenge the killings by white officers of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City. The gunman then killed himself.
Earlier de Blasio visited the families of the slain NYPD cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.
STORY: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was out in force Monday (December 22) seeking to ease tensions with the police force as he called on the public to report any suspicions that a police officer is under threat.
"The attack on these two officers, the assassination of these two officers was an attack on the City of New York as a whole," de Blasio said. "We cannot tolerate such attacks. Anyone with the ability to stop them, must step forward," he added.
The U.S. Justice Department condemned the attack in which a 28-year-old man with a troubled history ambushed two officers while they were sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn, apparently to avenge the killings by white officers of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City. The gunman then killed himself.
Earlier de Blasio visited the families of the slain NYPD cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.