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To act once they realized what they were dealing with and really how little time they had to try to stop this guy from doing this. >> sadly as we all know, they couldnt stop him. evan perez, thank you so much for the detail that were getting from police there and it sounds like quite the record from georgia. thank you. mayor bill de blasio isnt the only one calling for a pause in protests and rhetoric were hearing in this country. heres new yorks governor today on the radio. >> right now im call...

Broad daylight asass nati-- assassination of two of new yorks finest. an update from authorities on the investigation this afternoon, we learned authorities are still trying to piece together the final hours of the suspect in this particular case. and they showed remarkable footage. they say it is surveillance footage gathered from a mall in brooklyn about three hours before the attack on the new york police officers. they say it shows the suspect walking and moving about here in the new york ar...

Mayor de blasio here is on his back foot, if not under extraordinary pressure from his own police department in an extraordinary situation going on here. the patrolmens benevolent association, one of several police unions for the new york city police department, their president pat lynch has come out with withering, scathing attacks against mayor de blasio, saying blood is on his hands. they are upset over the way the mayor has handled the protest here over the michael brown shooting in ferguson...

Why so few women at this moment to celebrate this enormous victory? >> well, i guess part of it is also because of the fears. you know, tahrir square, like recently theres been a law in the past week -- theres many new developments. it wasnt just the womens march. there was also a protest, i was in front of -- there was a protest for the ousting of the yemeni president. there was a march for marchers of alexandria. theres a lot of side protests in front of the egyptian and state television build...

Francis? >> the mayor has really urged for the protests and all of that to be put aside to focus on the family. so, how are they? i understand former mayor rudy giuliani and cardinal dolan visited one of the families today. >> theyre suffering. their faith in god and their faith in jesus is helping them. theyre just wonderful people. he must have been a really remarkable man from the things you hear. he must have just been an exceptional, exceptional man, which is basically what our police offic...

Ones. >> all i can say is this is a time for every new yorker to think about these families. put them first. we can do that by respecting their pain, respecting their time of mourning. im asking everyone and this is across spectrum to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations until these funerals are passed. lets focus on these families and what they lost. >> the mayor got into a testy exchange by one reporter who asked the mayor about protests like these where they called for dead cops. >> i...

Are going to be very important dates to watch now, in terms of how the country continues to respond to these officers being killed. and, also, the broader context of the antiprotests that have been happening all over the country for weeks now. protests referenced the day he shot those officers in new york. today, new york citys mayor, bill deblasio asked for a pause if those on going protests until after the two officers can be laid to rest. >> im asking everyone, and this is across the spectrum...

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