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So i think its important that regardless of peoples viewpoints, that everyone recognize its a time to step back and just focus on these families. i think its a time for everyone to put aside political debates. put aside protests, put aside all of the things that we will talk about in due time. but in the coming days, two families prepare for funerals. two families try to think about how to piece their lives back together. that should be our only concern. how do we support them? i ask any organiz...

Office of the mayor. >> put aside protests. put a i side demonstrations. until these funerals are past, lets focus just on these families and what they have lost. >> reporter: today, the mayor called for an end to protests after his police commissioner said the killings may have been linked. >> its quite a panic, quite obvious, that the targeting of these two police officers was a direct spinoff of this issue with these demonstrations. >> reporter: on social media, suspect brinsley commented on ...

Fallen officers. heres what he said at a press conference. >> this is across the spectrum, to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations until these funerals are passed, lets focus just on these families and what they have lost. >> reporter: there is a tremendous divide that is between the mayor and his police department. now, new yorkers have known this for some time. but the rest of the nation is finding out about just how bitter that divide is and how wide that gap is. and the officers say ...

Aside protests, put aside demonstrations, until these funerals are passed, lets focus on these families and what they have lost. i think thats the right way and try and build towards a more unified and decent city. i also think its important to recognize we cant let these tragedies happen in the future. whenever we have the power to do something about it. i said some days back that anyone who knows of any effort to harm a police officer needs to report it to the police immediately, needs to inte...

Began after the garner grand jury decision, the protest in new york, the protests have turned uncreasingly ominous for the police. theres been a gradual ratcheting up of violence. we saw that last week with the punch in the face of the one officer and the two officers that were beaten and had to go to the emergency room. so i think what police are asking for is, what about us? we have to stand out here and are we automatically now punching bags and thats okay? >> john gaskin in the aftermath of ...

Just begun this beginning of a whole new life, looking forward to building a family, and now her husband is gone in an instant. again, they found strength in the other family members who are there, and i want to thank the nypd and our colleagues in the federal government who are doing a fantastic job working to get other family members from china back so they can be of support to the lius at this incredibly difficult time. we just let them know also that they were part of a large are family now ...

A show of rejection over the weekend turned their backs on the mayor there at the hospital where crews were transporting the officers bodies. this afternoon, the mayor did have a chance to speak and to respond but he chose to keep the focus on the families of the officers who were ambushed. >> the attack on them was an attack on all of us. it was an attack on our democracy. it was an attack on our values and an attack on every single new yorker. i think its important that regardless of peoples v...

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There have been some who have suggested that it was the protests that perhaps planted the seed in the suspects mind to somehow to want to seek revenge against police officers. and that in fact he was shooting at a uniform. and that was brought up today about the rhetoric that some of these protests had used on the streets of new york. as you point out, the mayor got testy in his response. heres what he said. >> the question is, what are you guys going to do? what are you guys going to do? are yo...

Line of duty each and every day. >> absolutely. i dont mean to say that his actions arent somehow in his warped mind related to the recent events. obviously there is causation there. i dont want to give him credit as being expressive protests. as a police officer, i did lose two close friends to violence to senseless violence to being shot and again what this is is somebody deranged that feels this needs to be done or this is justified in some way to take two of ours and we take one of theirs or...