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We must work together to bring peace to our communities,' the family said. 'We reject any kind of violence directed toward members of law enforcement. 'We have stressed at every rally and march that anyone engaged in any violence is an enemy to the pursuit of justice for Eric Garner and Michael Brown,' he said.īrown's family condemned the shooting in a statement posted online by their attorney. Al Sharpton said Garner's family has no connection to the suspect and denounced the violence. The post had more than 200 likes but also had many others admonishing his statements.īratton said the suspect made very serious 'anti-police' statements online but did not get into specifics of the posts. 'This may be my final post,' Brinsley wrote in the post that included an image of a silver handgun. A silver handgun was recovered at the scene, Bratton said.

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Officers chased him down to a nearby subway station, where he shot himself in the head as a subway train door full of people closed. The New York police union head declared there's 'blood on the hands' of protesters and the city's mayor.īrinsley took off running after the shooting. The sudden and extraordinary violence stunned the city, prompted a response from a vacationing President Barack Obama and escalated weeks of simmering ill will between police and their critics following grand jury decisions not to indict officers in the deaths of Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri. 'They were, quite simply, assassinated - targeted for their uniform,' said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who looked pale and shaken at a hospital news conference. The officers were on special patrol doing crime reduction work in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Police said Brinsley approached the passenger window of a marked police car and opened fire, striking Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in the head. The officials, a senior city official and a law enforcement official, were not authorized to speak publicly on the topic and spoke on condition of anonymity. He used the hashtags Shootthepolice RIPErivGardner (sic) RIPMikeBrown - references to the two police-involved deaths that have sparked major protests around the country.

They take 1 of ours, let's take 2 of theirs,' two city officials with direct knowledge of the case confirmed for The Associated Press. Brinsley, 28, wrote on an Instagram account before Saturday's shootings: 'I'm putting wings on pigs today.