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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. He said that at least 34, or 82%, of those homicides involved the use of a firearm.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. In the proclamation, Evans said that as of Thursday morning, there had been at least 202 shooting victims so far this year, with the city’s homicides totaling 41 as of the same date.

was killed in the line of duty."Įvans signed a proclamation Thursday morning declaring the state of emergency, which was set to go into affect at 12 p.m. Ten hours later, Officer Anthony Mazurkiewicz. "My response to him was that every day, the men and women of this department leave home, not knowing if they are going to return home at the end of their shift. at 11 a.m., I was asked by a reporter, 'how dangerous is it out there for the officers of the Rochester Police Department?'" he said. The deadly shooting unfolded hours after Rochester Mayor Malik Evans declared a gun violence state of emergency in response to a “surge in shootings and deadly shootings” in the city, with Smith noting on Friday that Mazurkiewicz and Seng had fallen victim “to the very violence in our community that we are trying to combat.”