Two NYPD officers were "assassinated" while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn Saturday afternoon by a gunman who had vowed online hours earlier to kill cops.
The gunman traveled to New York to carry out his plot after shooting his ex-girlfriend near Baltimore. His online postings said he was avenging the controversial deaths of two black men at police hands in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island.
The officers, Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, were shot execution-style at point-blank range in the ambush attack near the intersection of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 2:47 p.m., police said.
The killings happened just as the NYPD received word from police in Baltimore County, Maryland, that the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, had shot his former girlfriend and might be on his way to New York to harm police.
"Two of New York's finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation," NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said during a news conference last night at Woodhull Medical Center, where both officers were pronounced dead. "They were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniform and for the responsibility they embraced to keep the people of the city safe."
The officers were working a critical response detail, aimed at combating a crime surge at the Tompkins Houses, a public housing project, when Brinsley walked up to the passenger side of the car, "took a shooting stance," and opened fire, Bratton said.
"They never had the opportunity to draw their weapons," Bratton said. "They may never even have actually seen their . . . murderer."Ramos was in the driver's seat and Liu in the passenger seat when they were hit, Bratton said.
After the shootings, Brinsley fled into the nearby G train subway station and fatally shot himself on the platform as pursuing officers closed in, police said.
Bratton said investigators believe Brinsley lived in Atlanta and had traveled to suburban Baltimore, where he shot his ex-girlfriend Saturday morning.The murder weapon, a silver-colored semiautomatic Taurus pistol, was recovered in the subway station, police said.
Structure of The Lead:
who: Two NYPD officers
what:Two NYPD officers were "assassinated"
when: Saturday afternoon
why: not given
where: Brooklyn
how: by a gunman who had vowed online hours earlier to kill cops
Keywords:
1.assassinated-暗殺
2.cops-警察
3.avenge-復仇
4.ambush-伏擊
5.provocation-挑釁
6.stance-姿態
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The murder's motivation is to "avenging the controversial deaths of two black men". Before that, a black man peddler was just dead when the police arrested him lead to people went to street protest yelling "I can't breath." Does the new yorkers' assembly rationalize the murder's avenge? Rest in peace.
回覆刪除Why this event happened is still because of the racial discrimination, and the criminal should not do thing so extreme.I think he is not revenge for the two black men killed by the polices but for his own unwise behavior and extreme thought.
回覆刪除It is inadequate for the gunman to assassinate the two cops because they didn't do anything inappropriate to him. Recently, there have been more cases about murder which happened due to racial discrimination. That warns people and governments around the world that the problem of racial discrimination should be solved as soon as possible.
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