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across the city of new york. and maybe some who've come from outside the city to pay tribute to this fallen officer. >> reporter: well new yorkers are not known as shrinken violets. and certainly the people in this neighborhood are not. i had several people come up to me in the last couple of days saying, you know, we just want the world to know this is not a disruption to our neighborhood. all of this is perfectly fine. it is something we're willing to live with because with we love the police and we want people to know this is welcome. i can tell you that they have tried, with great effort, to keep this part of myrtle avenue empty. but it has filled up and filled up and filled up as the service gets closer to starting. it is a breathless seen to look down cyprus hill street where the funeral will go to the
PeopleNew-yorkOfficerSomeReporterShrinken-violetsSomethingNew-york-state-policeAll-of-youWorldNeighborhoodDisruptionlooted, even a christmas tree vandalized. and not far from ferguson, missouri, protests are still going on in the town of berkeley, missouri, after a white police officer killed a black teenager who says he was pointing a gun at him. you can see all of this, though, on surveillance video for himself as he raises his arm up. you can go and google that and watch for yourself. now the lawyer for the officer's reportedly suggesting his client may have been set up, ambushed. all of this going on as new york city gets ready to say a final farewell to one of those two officers killed in an ambush. david lee mill or has more. david lee? >> reporter: harris, just about two hours' time, the wake is going to get under way at the church located right behind me. we expect any moment now the hearse is going to arrive. let me set the scene for you here in queens, new york. this is myrtle avenue, some
Police-officerAllProtestsMissouriTeenagerGunOf-berkeleyTownChristmas-treeFergusonOfficerNew-york-citystart going out with barron at the wheel. there's a gentleman, pedro, with them in the front of the base. he hops in. they go down myrtle avenue, and as they're going, they hear two officers shot, rush on the bus. a bus being an ambulance. they hear that, and they know things are bad. and the traffic is up ahead, it's blocked up. they've got to weave in and out. they pull up and see a bunch of police cars and aren't sure what's going on. and they see one officer frantically calling for them to turn onto tompkins place. there's a police car with two gravely wounded officers in the front seat. the question is who do you attend to first, and they say who's hurt worse? both officers are shot in the head and both aren't breathing. so they speed up, they take the officer on the passenger side,
BaseBusGentlemanOfficers-shotFrontThe-wheelMyrtle-avenueRushTwoOfficerThingsAmbulancethe christ tabernacle church at 64-34 myrtle avenue in glendale, new york, and that, again, will be from 1400, 2:00 in the afternoon to 9:00 in the evening. funeral services will be held on saturday, december 27th, beginning at 10:00 in the morning. location will be the christ tabernacle church at 64-34 myrtle avenue, glendale, new york. and we will be putting out notices on our messaging as to our colleagued around the country, many of whom have been planning to taped these services. i received -- i cannot begin to describe the condolence messages i've been receiving from colleagues around the country and we're very, very grateful for those. what i'd like to do at this point in time is ask the mayor to come up and share with you both our experience this morning with the families, and other issues he would like to speak with you about at this time. mr. mayor. >> thank you very minute. thank you, commissioner.
New-york-cityFuneral-servicesIn-glendaleMyrtle-avenueChrist-tabernacle-churchDecember-27th640091400264-34-myrtle-avenuepolicing to be held accountable. not innocent police officers. >> not innocent police. my mother lives in that matter. matter of fact, eric and myself got married in the church right across the street. >> is that right? >> from where this happened? >> yes. rose baptist church it's right there on the corner. >> from where these officers were killed? >> right up the block, on myrtle, and i believe it's sumner -- >> tompkins. >> tompkins and myrtle avenue. we got married in that church. my mom lives not too far from there. i had two kids in that hospital. i grew up there. >> and that's the hospital these officers were brought to where they died on saturday night. >> yes. >> where the mayor went? >> yes. chardonnay, my oldest daughter and erica was born in woodhall hospital. my mom lives right up the block. >> so close in the same area, yet so estranged by how people try to play petty politics with
Police-officersPolicePolicingMatterAccountableMotherFactChurchThe-streetOfficersThe-blockYescity already on edge from the eric garner case. michael daley, a correspondent wrote a minute by minute account of the aftermath through the eyes of emergency medical personnel that were desperately trying to revive the officers. while we wait for the comments, a riveting account of those moments. you covered new york city for many years. >> i have. >> what was the account that you got in the moments after that shooting that happened on saturday? >> there was a voluntary ambulance corps near there and a gentlemen named barron johnson who was listening to the police radio and he heard officer down, 1013. he runs into the base and gets a young woman named tatiana alexander and they hop in the ambulance along with another guy in the front, pedro. they speed down myrtle avenue
American-cityCaseMichael-daleyAccountEric-garnerEyesPersonnelAftermathEdgeEmergencyOfficersCommentsarea. officer ramos was in the drivers seat and officer lou was in the passenger seat. the suspect, who has been identified as 28-year-old ishmael brinsley, walked up to the police car. he took a shooting stance on the passenger side and fired his weapon several times through the front passenger window, striking both officers in the head. officer lou and officer ramos never had the opportunity to draw their weapons. they may never have actually seen their assailant. other officers who were also assigned to the crv post immediately pursued him south on tarpins avenue. he then turn eed westbound on myrtle avenue and fled into the station. he proceeded down the stairs
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other officers immediately pursued brinsly southbound. brinsly then turned westbound on myrtle avenue and fled into the myrtle avenue and willoughby street, the g train subway station. he proceeded down the stairs, onto the westbound subway platform. while on the platform, brinsly shot himself in the head, took his own life. a silver, semi-automatic firearm was recovered near the suspect's body. officers liu and ramos were transported here to woodhull hospital. despite every effort to save their lives. both officers tragically succumbed to their injuries. >> what a horrible senseless loss. police are looking into social
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