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You know, we give our condolences to the family. >> we are grieving and were very sorry for what happened for the innocent cops that were there. >> the truth is whatever motivated brinsley, his actions have increased tensions between new yorks police department and the mayor and one former new york police commissioners hitting at a wider impact on public safety. brian todd has more. >> reporter: two fallen officers, a city convulsing with tension and now a sense that the strain between police ac...

Convulsing with tension. and tonight, a sense that the strain between police across the country and the public they protect is growing. police are angry that recent demonstrations turned into personal attacks against them. >> we can certainly blame them. i think to the extent that this deranged individual acted on saturday, theres little doubt he thought there would be a wave of sympathy from within the community based on what hes been hearing from the agitators. >> reporter: in the days before ...

Country in the world where that attitude change has been so radical. i dont think will is one. >> now, the black underclass, the people who are poor and live in neighborhoods that are dangerous and people feel they dont have think chance, just the system is stacked against them, that is entrenched now. they feed them. its not your fault. its white privilege and all this is keeping you down. thats an industry in and of itself, is it not? >> no. theres no question that theres a class of racial agi...

Country in the world where that attitude change has been so radical. i dont think will is one. >> now, the black underclass, the people who are poor and live in neighborhoods that are dangerous and people feel they dont have think chance, just the system is stacked against them, that is entrenched now. they feed them. its not your fault. its white privilege and all this is keeping you down. thats an industry in and of itself, is it not? >> no. theres no question that theres a class of racial agi...

On video and we go back to that perception problem, right? rcht absolutely. >> as these protests grow larger and larger its hard to control people. >> certainly. you have people who are going to be infiltrators, agitators, who we dont know, people who probably dont even support the cause that will come out. when you have 50,000 people out on the streets of any town or any state, youre going to have these issues. and i think that police officers should arrest and people should be prosecuted if th...

Attacks on police officers. new york police have generally allowed marches to block bridges, giving them a little morley we leeway. >> when agitators would seek to take over these events, we would deal quickly with them. our effort will be focused on anybody who seeks to assault a new york city police officer or anybody who seeks to disrupt the demonstrations through acts of violence, of vandalism. we will aggressively pursue them. >> the man who police say sparked the attack was arrested sunday...

Have reduced these people to such a degree, we have made them like one line people. we have made martin luther king the i have a dream speech rather than remembering that he was a complicated person, he was not simply about longsuffering but he was also about being a revolutionary and being an agitator and to use a very modern word being a disruptor and making people uncomfortable. and he did that quite often. and he was a strategist. and i think that we do that with all of our heroes, particula...

Ultimately appears to be proved untrueth. none of us want to be in the position of attacking a victim but the question should be ask who had is the victim? another story were following. new york citys police commissioner says his department will not tolerate protesters who commit acts of violence. william bratton spoke days after an attack on two police officers during a march to protest the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. new york police have generally allowed marchers to block roads...

In northern california after 500 protestors swarm the open free way. a standoff with police officers that eventually deployed tear gas. demonstrators looted multiple businesses. a peaceful protestor trying to stop a protestor was hit in the face with a hammer. this after a grand jury decided last not to indict the police officer inneric garners choke hold death. >> he sends a message. we dont want any violence. keep on keeping on. >> just the night before, a group of agitators in berkeley, calif...

>> they came in with a crowbar and started stealing as much as they could get. >> last week the officer many eric garners choke hold death was not indicted. >> peace is the message. we dont want any violence but keep on keeping on. >> just the night before, a group of agitators in berkeley, california broke windows and threw what they could at local police in full riot gear. some demonstrators saying on social media police were firing rubber bullets. police have yet to comment. in new york city ...