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2 NYPD Officers Dead In Brooklyn Shooting

The Huffington Post | By Andres Jauregui
Posted: 12/20/2014 5:11 pm EST Updated: 4 minutes ago

Two NYPD officers are dead after a gunman shot into a patrol car in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, police said.

The gunman was pursued by other officers and entered a subway station, where authorities said he then fatally shot himself in the head.

“The perp came out of the houses, walked up behind the car and lit them up,” a high-ranking police official told the Daily News.

The New York Post reports:

According to preliminary reports, both officers were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill when they were shot point-blank by a single gunman who approached their car at the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues.

The officers were rushed to Woodhull Hospital in critical condition. Both officers died after the shooting, according to multiple sources.

The shooting occurred in Bedford-Stuyvesant about a block away from the Myrtle/Willoughby G train subway station, a witness told the New York Daily News. After the shooting, officers pursued the suspect into the train station, witnesses said.

A witness who was on the first car of a Court Square-bound G train when police were on the scene told the Huffington Post that he saw "crowds of people lined up squatting against the wall" and "trying to hide behind benches" on the platform as his train pulled in.

"Everyone on the platform was on the ground." the witness, who wished to remain anonymous, told HuffPost. "A cop ran up to the conductor's window, slammed on it and told him not to open the train doors... the train kept rolling."

Crazy things happening at myrtle will station. G train not running. Tons of cops.

A photo posted by Liza Stark (@lizaatplay) on Dec 12, 2014 at 12:43pm PST

This is a developing story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6360434.html

Gunman kills self after 2 NYPD cops shot dead ‘execution style’ as ‘revenge’ for Garner

By Larry Celona, Kevin Fasick and Jamie Schram
December 20, 2014 | 4:07pm

A suspect was found shot at the scene and rushed to a nearby hospital.Photo: Paul Martinka

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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 execution-style mission to avenge Eric Garner and Michael Brown.“It’s an execution,” one law enforcement source said of the 3 p.m. shooting of the two officers, whose names were being withheld pending family notification of their deaths.

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The tragic heroes were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill when they were shot point-blank in their heads by the lone gunman, who approached them on foot from the sidewalk at the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in Bed-Stuy.

“I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today,” a person believed to be the gunman wrote on Instagram in a message posted just three hours before the officers were shot through their front passenger window.
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The post included an image of silver automatic handgun with a wooden handle. Another post showed camouflage pants and blue sneakers which matched the clothing the dead gunman was wearing as his body was carried from the scene on a stretcher.

“They Take 1 Of Ours … Let’s Take 2 of Theirs,” the post continued, signing off with, “This May Be My Final Post.”

The gunman was a fugitive who had just murdered his girlfriend in Baltimore Saturday morning, sources told The Post.

Minutes after shooting the two officers, he, too, was dead.

He fled to a nearby subway station, the G-train station at Myrtle and Willoughby avenues, where, as pursuing cops closed in, he shot himself on a crowded platform, sources told The Post.

“They engaged the guy and he did himself,” one investigator said of the gunman’s demise.

Both shooting scenes — above and below ground — were scenes of blood and terror.

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The scene of the shooting.Photo: William Farrington

“I heard shooting, — four or five shots,” ear-witness Derrick McKie, 49, told The Post of the cops’ tragic murder. “It sounded like from a single gun,” he said. Ambulances and police cars rushed to the scene, he said.

“I seen them putting the cop in the ambulance. He looked messed up,” McKie, a barber, added. “He took a high caliber weapon to the face. He was lifeless…I couldn’t see where the holes was that, all I could see was blood. His body was lifeless.”

Modal Trigg Carmen Jimenez, 32, a social worker from Bedford-Stuyvesant, was on the subway platform when the gunman ran inside, pursued by officers.

“Everything happened so quick,” said Jimenez, who is eight months pregnant. “We were standing waiting for the G train. We heard arguing from the other end of the platform.

It looked like two cops came in there was lots of yelling and they said, ‘Everybody get down.’

“We tried to get out of there, and there was a lot of shouting, people were screaming, people were trying to run.

“I threw myself on the floor. I was afraid for my life and afraid for my baby.”

http://nypost.com/2014/12/20/2-nypd-...e-in-brooklyn/

An escalation of this.... they need to get the trash off of the streets in NY and Al Sharpton and Obama's buddies at the SEIU should be charged to inciting riots that have now led to murder. JMO
Third alleged cop-basher has surrendered

By Natalie Musumeci and Natasha Velez

December 20, 2014 | 12:13pm

Recognize any of these people? Wanted for assaulting 2 lieutenants on BKLYN Bridge. Call 1-800-COP-SHOT. $12K Reward. pic.twitter.com/3fhORtaanP

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Recognize any of these people? Wanted for assaulting 2 lieutenants on BKLYN Bridge. Call 1-800-COP-SHOT. $12K Reward.

A third alleged cop-basher has turned himself in to cops, sources said.

Zachary Campbell surrendered early this morning at the 5th Precinct stationhouse in Chinatown and is currently being grilled by investigators in the attack on cops on the Brooklyn Bridge during last weekend’s Millions March NYC protests, law enforcement sources said.

Campbell has been charged with resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, and riot, law enforcement sources said.
So far two others have been arrested.

Campbell’s estranged wife, Maria Garcia, 36 – “Female Suspect No. 1” – was arraigned Saturday morning in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, and rioting. She was busted Friday after the NYPD executed a search warrant at her home in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.



Maria Garcia in court on Saturday.Photo: Brigitte Stelzer

Her lawyer, Jonathan Oberman, denied she was on the bridge at the time of the assaults, which were caught on video.

Garcia was released on $1,000 bail. She declined comment as she left the courthouse.
Rob Murray, 43 — “Male Suspect No. 3″ — was arrested Thursday after he turned himself in, police said. He was later released on $10,000 bail.

Murray, who worked as a labor organizer for SEIU and is a regular at political protests, was arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention in the Big Apple.

Investigators are still looking for at least four other suspects in the Saturday night melee that left NYPD Lt. Philip Chan with a broken nose.

The NYPD has upped the reward to $25,000 for anyone with information leading to an arrest.

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http://nypost.com/2014/12/20/third-alleged-cop-basher-has-surrendered/

But New York has such a vibrant "diversity" and in no time at all it will just Detroit. JMO
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Thought those anti-cop protesters were peaceful? Think again

By Michael Goodwin

December 16, 2014 | 10:08pm

Photo: William Farrington

MICHAEL GOODWIN

’Tis the season of magic, so let’s play pretend. Let’s make believe that only an itsy-bitsy handful of those anti-police protesters disrupting the city are hell-bent on mayhem.

To get there, you have to ignore the hundreds if not thousands in Manhattan caught on tape chanting,“What do we want?” and answering: “Dead cops.” They must have been in some other city.

You have to overlook those “shoot back” chants as well. As for that nut from CUNY caught trying to throw a garbage can onto the Brooklyn Bridge roadway and punching a cop — blame your lying eyes!

And pretend you didn’t see those “peaceful” protesters who were taped helping him escape, and kicked one cop when he was on the ground. Hey, the camera lies, too!
Video credit: Chris Nooney

Now that we’re in full fiction mode, let’s pick up the rabble’s battle cry that the police are an occupying army of racist white brutes and that the five officers assaulted had it coming. Let’s ignore reality to pretend Mayor Bill de Blasio is on solid ground when he stokes the flames by saying police are a threat to his biracial son.

To believe that, you now have to erase two sets of facts. One, the fact that violent crime in New York is overwhelmingly the province of nonwhite males, both as victims and perpetrators. Two, you have to disregard that police shot at only 40 suspects last year, reaching, like crime, a historic low.

Cops fired their guns in just 81 incidents in 2013 — including 19 times at dogs. The incidents include six police suicides, as against eight armed suspects the police shot and killed.

There is more, but you get the point. The list of facts you have to ignore to defend the violent and disruptive crowds is so long that something else is going on here, something far more sinister.

It’s only by peeling back the layers of pretend that we get to the naked truth: The whole narrative of widespread police brutality is a big fat lie.

It’s a lie that turns truth on its head, meaning the movement the mayor praises as “organic” and says is raising legitimate concerns is a scam foisted on the public for the sole purpose of advancing a far-left political agenda.

The NYPD saved the city from killers, rapists and muggers and most New Yorkers know it. They showed their appreciation by trusting cops and giving former commissioner Ray Kelly sky-high approval ratings all through his 12 years — higher, in fact, than any politician, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg.


Mayor Bill de BlasioPhoto: Getty Images

To de Blasio, that wall of trust is a barrier to his agenda of class and race warfare. He harped on a “tale of two cities” and “income inequality” not to fix problems, but as a revolutionary whistle for those radicals who want to smash Wall Street, capitalism and American norms.

Tearing down trust for the cops is essential to opening the door for an erosion of law enforcement. “Broken windows” policing will be shattered, meaning a lower quality of life in most neighborhoods.

Acting like a candidate trying to define his opponent, the mayor is dirtying up the police so he can diminish the public’s trust in them. He’s running against the NYPD.

That explains the trumped-up accusations of racism against Kelly and the whole department and the flood of laws and overseers aimed at handcuffing cops.

Whipping up the crowds to fool the public into thinking there is a serious police problem that must be fixed opens a new phase in the campaign. His son was just another tool in de Blasio’s bag of dirty tricks. He’s even trying to use Cardinal Timothy Dolan to isolate the cops’ union.

The mayor pooh-poohs the $23 million police overtime cost by trotting out a straw man.

“Do we tell people they’re not allowed to raise their voice,” de Blasio said in rejecting cost concerns. “Do we tell people they’re not allowed to march.”

Nobody suggested that, but deception is par for the course for Mayor Putz. Any lie will do in a storm.

How about that fence around Gracie Mansion? As The Post reported, he requested it for privacy. When asked, he blamed police, saying they wanted it for security. A wooden fence for security isn’t even a good lie.

Naturally, his office also gave out a phony figure for the cost, low-balling it at $4,250. Finally embarrassed into seeking permits, the cost suddenly jumped to $30,000.

Trust him? Don’t even bother pretending.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/16/thought-those-anti-cop-protesters-were-peaceful-think-again/

Man who executed two cops shot his girlfriend in Baltimore then traveled to New York and BRAGGED on Instagram that he was going to get revenge for Eric Garner and Mike Brown before launching deadly attack and finally killing himself

• Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, 'crept up behind car and shot officers in the head'
• Officers were shot dead in their patrol car today in Bedford Stuyvesant area
• Claims suspect walked up behind patrol car and opened fire in 'execution'
• Police are thought to have pursued him into subway, where he shot himself
• Investigators reportedly investigating social media posts explaining death
• Man posted that he was going to take 2 NYPD lives in revenge for Garner

By MIA DE GRAAF and KIERAN CORCORAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:58 EST, 20 December 2014 | UPDATED: 21:06 EST, 20 December 2014
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This is the man who shot dead two police officers in a sickening act of revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, 28, shot his girlfriend in Baltimore on Saturday morning then traveled 190 miles to Brooklyn where he fired a fatal round of bullets at recently-married officer Wenjian Liu and father-of-one Rafael Ramos - before turning the gun on himself.
According to witnesses, Brinsley walked out of a home with a gun in his hand at 3pm, crept up behind the officers' patrol car, and systematically shot both men in the head through the passenger window.
He then walked to the Myrtle/Willoughby G train subway station where he shot himself in the head.
It came two hours after he posted a picture of a gun on Instagram with the chilling message: 'I'm Putting Wings On Pigs Today. They Take 1 Of Ours... Let's Take 2 of Theirs #ShootThePolice #RIPErivGardner (sic) #RIPMikeBrown. This May Be My Final Post. I'm Putting Pigs In A Blanket.'
Tragically, Baltimore police had tried to apprehend Brinsley by alerting the NYPD after his morning shooting - but by the time a wanted flyer was issued, his attack was already under way.


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Attack: This is Ismail Brinsley, 28, who police believe shot dead two NYPD cops in an 'execution style' attack



Before: This picture and chilling message was posted on the alleged shooter's page two hours beforehand



Chilling: Brinsley told followers he would be 'putting pigs in a blanket' in apparent revenge for Eric Garner



After: Brinsley posted this image of his blood-stained trousers moments after the attack before killing himself



Targeted: This is the police car that Brinsley targeted, parked in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn

Officers Liu and Ramos were stationed in a new precinct on Saturday morning as part of a crime prevention strategy to deal with a recent influx of reports in that area.

Liu had served four years with the force; Ramos, two.

Both were taken to Woodhull Medical Center immediately but, within hours, succumbed to their injuries.

One of Brinsley's friends, Paul Young, told DailyMail.com the alleged shooter is a rapper who took part in the recent anti-police protests.

Young said: ‘He posted motivational stuff on Instagram and went to the protests. I think this really came as a shock to a lot of people.

'He shot his girlfriend this morning then went to shoot those cops.'

Investigators are now looking into posts on the Instagram social network from Brinsley who detailed his explicit plans to kill two NYPD officers today because of the Garner's death this summer.

Brinsley's account has now been deleted.

Eric Garner died in a police chokehold on Staten Island, sparking widespread outrage when a grand jury later decided not to indict anybody over the death.

Policemen were seen flooding the streets around the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood where the shooting took place around 3pm Saturday afternoon.

A police source speaking to the Post said the killings resembled 'an execution' in which the attacker started 'pumping bullets' into the officers.

According to the New York Daily News, Brinsley was hiding out in a house, walked up behind the patrol car and opened fire in a planned attack.

Brinsley was arrested in Dekalb, Georgia, on October 24, 2007, for criminal trespass.

In 2011, he was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon and reckless behavior.




Panic: Dozens of police officers are gathered looking shaken at Woodhull Medical Center where their two colleagues succumbed to their gunshot wounds. Commissioner Bratton will address reporters at 7pm


Shock: Crowds of cops are lining the scene of the crime where Tompkins Avenue meets Myrtle Avenue


Fears: Senior members of the NYPD say they have been warning for weeks that the unrest could escalate



Attacks: Officials said police officers are walking around with a balls-eye on their backs in the current climate



Shooting: Officers flooded the street after the shooting. Witnesses says policemen chased down the suspect, who is thought to have shot himself



Cordon: Officers sealed off the area after the attack in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood



Sealed off: Witnesses uploaded pictures to social media of the street, which was cordoned off after the shooting



Chaos: The killings follow weeks of tensions between protesters and the NYPD


Two NYPD officers shot in Brooklyn, suspect dead



Authorities said that officers pursued the man into the subway, where he shot himself.

The shooting comes at a time of record tensions between the NYPD and many of the communities in the city.

Widespread protests over the death of Garner, and the grand jury's later actions showed huge levels of suspicion and distrust of law enforcement and the justice system.

Last week officers were assaulted on the Brooklyn Bridge, where thousands of demonstrators gathered.

Officers have complained that the citizens, as well as politicians including mayor Bill de Blasio, turned their back on them, while protesters routinely refer to the police as murderers and racists.

Thousands are blaming the double murder on Mayor Bill de Blasio following his recent support for protesters in the city marching in opposition to a grand jury's decision to not indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik told Newsmax: 'De Blasio, Sharpton and all those who encouraged this anti-cop, racist mentality all have blood on their hands.'

New York State Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis said in a statement: 'It is well past the time for our mayor and citywide leaders to call for a return to order in our streets, and take a hard stance that that lawlessness and aggression towards police officers will not be tolerated.

'Extreme anti-police sentiment and public unruliness have been permitted to fester for far too long.'

A petition for de Blasio's resignation has already amassed more than 5,000 signatures.

Hundreds have taken to social media to say that de Blasio has 'blood on his hands' and should 'be charged with murder' after the two men were killed 'execution style' in Brooklyn.

What's more, many feel that de Blasio should not attend the men's funeral, this after many members of the NYPD signed a petition asking that the Mayor not attend their service should they be killed in the line of duty in light of his recent actions.



Scene: Emergency vehicles piled into the neighborhood today after the fatal shooting



Heavy duty: Although the lone attacker reportedly shot himself, heavily armed officers were deployed on the streets

Harry Houck, a retired NYPD detective, went on CNN to attack both de Blasio and Al Sharpton.

'I guess Al Sharpton got what he wanted,' said Houck of the civil rights leader.

Houck then attacked the Mayor for not supporting the leadership in the police department, saying that he should not show up at the funeral or these two officers.

Furthermore, he said Saturday's killings were inevitable as the protesters wanted to 'take out a cop for Eric Garner.'
He then added, 'I've been waiting for something like this to happen.'

Al Sharpton said in a statement: 'I have spoken to the Garner family and we are outraged by the early reports of the police killed in Brooklyn today.

'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.

'We have stressed at every rally and march that anyone engaged in any violence is an enemy to the pursuit of justice for Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

'We have been criticized at National Action Network for not allowing rhetoric or chanting of violence and would abruptly denounce it at all of our gatherings.

'The Garner family and I have always stressed that we do not believe that all police are bad, In fact we have stressed that most police are not bad.

'We plan to hold a press conference in the morning to express our outrage and our condolences to the families and the police department.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2882105/Two-New-York-police-officers-shot-Brooklyn.html

'We plan to hold a press conference in the morning to express our outrage and our condolences to the families and the police department.'

I can't imagine anyone thta would be interested in his blathering backsliding press conference. Al owns this one.JMO

NYPD Officers TURN THEIR BACK TO Mayor De Blasio As He Enters Police Press Conference

Originally Posted by Newmexican

NYPD Officers TURN THEIR BACK TO Mayor De Blasio As He Enters Police Press Conference

Now that's powerful. From what I can see this has been posted by the dailymail website. Doubt any of our lamestream media will report it.

Saturday, 20 Dec 2014 06:49 PM
By Todd Beamon

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik told Newsmax that Saturday's execution-style shooting of two uniformed police officers was ultimately encouraged by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Rev. Al Sharpton — and "they have blood on their hands."

"de Blasio, Sharpton and all those who encouraged this anti-cop, racist mentality all have blood on their hands," he said. "They have blood on their hands."

The two officers were shot about 3 p.m. while sitting in their marked car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn by a man identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley.

He wounded his girlfriend in a shooting in Baltimore before driving to New York and ambushing the officers, according to the New York Daily News.

Brinsley, who reportedly belonged to a gang, later killed himself on a crowded Brooklyn subway platform as police closed in on him. He bragged on his Instagram page just hours before that he wanted to kill police officers, the Daily News reports.

Investigators said that Brinsley was avenging the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown by killing the officers.

Kerik told Newsmax that the officers' deaths resulted from a climate created by de Blasio, Sharpton and other New York City officials.

"This guy's intent — based on that Instagram post — was retribution for Eric Garner and Michael Brown," he told Newsmax. "The people who encouraged these protests — you had peaceful protesters who were screaming 'kill the cops' — the so-called peaceful protesters.

"Who was encouraging these protesters? De Blasio, Sharpton and other elected officials and community leaders. They encouraged this mentality. They encouraged this behavior.

"They encouraged it — and these two cops are dead because of people like them," Kerik said. "They don't owe the cops an apology.

"An apology isn't good enough. They have blood on their hands."

Later, Kerik called for peaceful citizen demonstrations over the deaths of the officers.

"What I want to see is a day of outrage," he told Jeanine Pirro on her Fox News program. "I want to see protests for the two cops that are lying dead tonight.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ker.../20/id/614261/

Let Us Remember The Officers Who Gave Their Lives: Wenjian Liu And Rafael Ramos


Killed for their color: blue.
Via Huff Po:

Two NewYork City police officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were shot dead “execution style” in Brooklyn just before 3 p.m. Saturday, police said, by an alleged gang member who posted on social media that he wanted revenge for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner

“Quite simply, they were assassinated,” NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said at a press conference held Saturday evening at the hospital where the grieving families gathered. “Both officers paid the ultimate sacrifice today while protecting the communities they serve.”

Liu and Ramos may have never seen the attacker open fire as they were sitting in their patrol car, Bratton said, on special duty because of heightened violence in the area.

Liu got married only two months ago, according to Bratton, who met with Liu’s devastated parents and new bride.

Ramos, who just had his 40th birthday, became a cop only three years ago after working for years as a school safety officer. Ramos’ family includes a wife and 13-year-old son, “who couldn’t comprehend what had happened to his father,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

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They are reporting how their backs were turned to the mayor...good!
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It is the sequence that every mayor dreads: the ominous report, the scramble to the hospital and the confirmation that, yes, an attack against the police has proved fatal.

But for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the tragedy on Saturday — when two police officers were shot and killed in an ambush in Brooklyn, according to the authorities — arrived at a particularly trying moment, amid an already fractious relationship with the police.

Police union leaders and officers could be seen turning their backs to the mayor and the police commissioner, William J. Bratton, as they walked past, in a video taken at the hospital where the two held a news conference on Saturday.

A written message from Edward Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, addressed the mayor directly. “Mayor de Blasio,” it read in part, “the blood of these two officers is clearly on your hands.”

For weeks, New York City has been the roiling epicenter of a national reckoning over the police and race, attracting nightly protests since a Staten Island grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against a white police officer in the case of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died after a chokehold in July.

Police union leaders have condemned the mayor for what they have called insufficient support of the police; they have circulated a letter allowing officers to request that he not attend their funerals in the event of a line-of-duty death.

At the news conference on Saturday, at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, the mayor tried to deflect focus on the recent tensions. He said it was “a time to think about these families” and not “a time for politics or political analysis.”

Asked on Saturday about the turned backs and union messages, Phil Walzak, the mayor’s press secretary, said it was “unfortunate that in a time of great tragedy, some would resort to irresponsible, overheated rhetoric that angers and divides people.”

During the briefing, Mr. de Blasio largely deferred to Mr. Bratton. The mayor recalled the emotional scene with the families of the officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, at the hospital. The 13-year-old son of Officer Ramos, the mayor said gravely, “couldn’t comprehend what had happened to his father.”

The murder of an officer, he said, “is an attack on all of us.”

Even before the shooting, the mayor — who has staked his tenure, in part, on a pledge to reshape the Police Department, healing rifts between communities and their officers in the process — had been engaged in a high-wire act of sorts.

He has sought to express sympathy for the protesters, many of whom have placed their faith in the mayor to turn back what they see as years of overreaching by the police, and support for the officers, who remain wary, in many circles, of his designs.

Amid the protests, Mr. de Blasio had already been forced to confront the specter of violence against the police. Last Saturday, two police lieutenants were attacked during a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Speaking at a police promotions ceremony on Friday, the mayor seemed to provide an unwitting preview of his Saturday remarks. “Any act of violence against our police officers,” he told a packed auditorium at Police Headquarters in Lower Manhattan, “is an act of violence against our values."

Many lawmakers and protesters expressed sympathy and gratitude for the police on Saturday. Some advocates noted that mourning the deaths of officers and deaths at the hands of officers were not mutually exclusive.

Yet by Saturday night, it seemed clear that the dialogue over policing in the city remained fraught.

Among other grievances, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union, has in recent weeks criticized the mayor for invoking his biracial son, Dante, after the Garner decision. At the time, the mayor described his experience instructing Dante to “take special care” during any police encounters. Some union leaders suggested that Mr. de Blasio was conveying that police officers were to be feared.

Mr. Bratton has defended his boss, and both have taken pains to highlight the dangers of patrolling the city. “You put that blue uniform on,” he said on Saturday, “and you become part of that thin blue line between us and anarchy.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/ny...asio.html?_r=0