My grandparents lived in that neighborhood when I was a little kid. I’m talking more than 60 years ago. It wasn’t Beverly Hills but it was safe. Lots of Eastern Europeans.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The two NYPD officers who were executed Saturday inside their police vehicle in Brooklyn have been identified as Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.
“They were, quite simply, assassinated,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said at a press conference held Saturday night at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. “Targeted for their uniform and for the responsibility they embraced to keep the people of this city safe.”
Both officers worked out of the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn, although they had been posted outside the Tompkins Houses, within the confines of the 79th Precinct, as part of a departmental crime reduction initiative at various city housing developments, when they were shot, Commissioner Bill Bratton said.
Ramos and Liu were dressed in full police uniform, sitting in a marked critical response vehicle in front of 98 Tompkins Avenue, he said.
Ramos was in the driver’s seat and Liu was seated beside him, in the passenger seat when the gunman approached them from the vehicle’s passenger side and opened fire, Bratton said.
The gunman, identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, walked up to the car’s passenger side, took a shooting stance and fired his weapon several times through the passenger window, striking both officers in the head, Bratton said.
“Liu and Ramos never had the opportunity to draw their weapons,” Bratton said. “They may never have seen their assailant.”
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