Posted on 12/21/2014 5:37:45 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Tragic to know that it will soon be Christmas for most everyone else but not for the families of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who, along with justice, will need everyone’s most fervent prayers.
“Officers down!” have to be the two most tragic words ever heard over police radios. NYPD officers, 40-year-old Rafael Ramos and 32-year-old Wenjian Liu, were shot, point blank, at approximately 2:47 p.m., this afternoon.
The tragedy is all the more heart-rending that the officers were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill in Bedford-Stuyvesant when they were shot in the head by a lone gunmen, who had earlier stated his cop-killing intention via Instagram, as they sat in their cruiser.
The lone gunman, identified by sources as Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, 28, had addresses in both Georgia and Brooklyn.
As police were closing in on him moments after the shooting, Brinsley turned the gun on himself on a nearby subway platform.
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