An NYPD police officer stops to look at a memorial in Downtown Brooklyn where two officers were gunned down Saturday afternoon while on duty in New York City on December 23, 2014. The two officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, were shot dead as they sat in their marked patrol car at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The suspect, 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, ran into a nearby subway station where he shot himself in the head. UPI/John Angelillo |
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Liu and Ramos were gunned down in an ambush by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The murders of the officers come after growing unrest following the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown who were both unarmed when they died at the hands of police.
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