Posted on 12/20/2014 6:30:24 PM PST by maggief
Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the “senseless” shooting of two New York City police Saturday, and pledged the full resources of the Justice Department to assist in the investigation of the ambush killings.
“This was an unspeakable act of barbarism, and I was deeply saddened to hear of the loss of these two brave officers in the line of duty,” Holder said in a statement. “On behalf of all those who serve in the United States Department of Justice, I want to express my heartfelt condolences to the officers' loved ones and colleagues.”
A White House official confirmed that President Obama was briefed, and that White House officials will continue to monitor the situation.
New York City police commissioner William Bratton said earlier Saturday that the two officers, Wenjin Liu and Raphael Ramos, were shot without warning while sitting in their parked patrol car. The suspect, 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, then ran to a nearby subway station and fatally shot himself. Bratton said Brinsley had shot his ex-girlfriend earlier Saturday in Baltimore, and posted messages to his social media accounts “which were very anti-police.”
The killings came amid criticism of the New York City police department following the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died when police officers arresting him for selling illegal cigarettes placed him in a chokehold.
A grand jury decided earlier this month not to indict officers in the death, just days after a similar panel in Ferguson, Mo., opted not to charge Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown.
The New York Post published a series of pictures reportedly from Brinsley’s Instagram page that references Brown and Garner and intimates plans to kill police officers in retaliation. The Instagram account is no longer active.
Al Sharpton, who has served as a spokesman for Garner’s family, condemned the shootings in a post to Twitter.
“I am outraged at the killing of 2 police officers in Brooklyn,” Sharpton said. “That is why we stress non violence as the only way to fight for justice.”
President Obama earlier this week signed an executive order establishing a task force dedicated to finding ways to improve relations between communities and their police forces, and Holder himself traveled around the country in recent weeks for a series of roundtable discussions on the subject.
Holder referenced that effort in his statement Saturday on the New York police shooting.
"Our nation must always honor the valor -- and the sacrifices -- of all law enforcement officers with a steadfast commitment to keeping them safe,” he said. “This means forging closer bonds between officers and the communities they serve, so that public safety is not a cause that is served by a courageous few, but a promise that's fulfilled by police officials and citizens working side by side."
H0lder is all about blood letting - the derivation of the “Barber’s Pole”.
With only the names to go by, one was Oriental and the other Hispanic. Guess he couldn't find any whiteys.
Holder: How can we miss you when you won’t go away?
This Race stuff based on squat (not skin color or any other rational discriminatory personal properties is wack.
Well, he is a leech...
“senseless shooting”
Why of course he was referring to the death of the POS murderer.
Will probably visit this guy’s family and attend the funeral.
Scumbag!!
Eric Holder, with all due respect, you are a jackass who stoked this situation by playing up black people’s anger and fears. You turned an accidental death in New York, and justified deaths in Sanford and Ferguson into modern day lynchings.
In short, go screw yourself. That’s all the respect you’re due.
I thought the ROTC office invader and violent felon Holder was all for this crap.
Guess he thinks he has to put up a front?
The libtards need to get an objective measure of "race" especially given that Bammy is, at best, a mulatto.
Lemme guess- the cops were black and the killers are white? Otherwise why would Holder waste breath on it?
We should pity Holder. Can you imagine how hard it is to keep all of your positions consistent?
“Let’s see...today is Saturday. Do I praise thugs or police? Is it Monday I condemn all police and honor low life scum? Or is that on Wednesday?”
Octoroon, actually; half white, three eighths Arab and one eighth black.
Nothing new here.
We already knew that Holder’s people are barbarians.
” White House officials will continue to monitor the situation.”
What situation, it’s over...two dead police officers, as requested, and one dead shooter. Sharpton, DeBlasio, Holder and Obama need to be monitored, their race baiting rants enabled this freak to feel empowered.
So Obama’s lackey Eric the Red cries crocodile tears, while the golfer Obama (who released a note of sympathy and outrage ON THE SAME DAY the late-term abortionist George Tiller was shot) hasn’t said a thing.
America, this is the truth: Obama doesn’t give a damn about your local cops. Not one damn.
He doesn’t even care that there are BAD cops—except when he can exploit their behavior for political advantage.
Obama DOES care about being certain babies can be ripped apart in the womb.
Obama DOES care about being certain that your liberty is being destroyed by his crony capitalist friends in Big Pharma and Big Insurance—crushing small business competition for these industries.
Obama DOES care about being certain that totalitarian states see this nation as bending over backward to accomodate their desires—see Russia, Cuba, China, Iran.
Plainly, Obama doesn’t care about Americans. He only cares about hurting America.
Yes, he is probably his happy dance with Valerie Jarrett in their offices. Hypocrite.
If only some unarmed black “teen” would mug Al Sharpton. That would make my day.
The Black pandering politicians should be put on trial for these deaths too.
And I call Holder Obamas butt boy. Worthless black basturd needs to work at Target
i only take pleasure in holder’s discomfort having to say such a lie that we all know eats him up inside’to have to utter. mokita.
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