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Policemen of the weekend. Investigators say this is the killer. He indicated on social media he was out for revenge for the deaths of eric garner and Michael Brown and as you know, they were two black when whose deaths at the hands of Police Officers in recent months have sparked protests across america. Those protests were mostly peaceful here in new york city, but some demonstrators took their antipolice message to the extreme. Watch. [chanting] what do we want. Dead cops, when do we want it . Now. That disturbing chant happened a week before the gunman executed the two Police Officers here. Now the head of the police union is blaming new york citys mayor for the killing after he met with protesters, despite the call for dead officers and the fact that at least five officers have been assaulted during the protests. The union is accusing the mayor of showing more support for the antipolice movement than for the police force. Today mayor de~blasio called for a temporary stop to the protests and any talk of politics. Ask that any organizations that were planning events or gatherings that are about politics and protests, that could be for another day. Lets accompany these families on their difficult journey, see them through the funerals. That was a short time ago. The mayor could have trouble winning the trust of officers and many citizens for that matter. Even before the shootings there was a petition telling the mayor he is not welcome at Police Funerals if they die on the job, and in a sign of the bad blood between the police and city hall, the city leaders,ing this video shows officers turning their backs on mayor de~blasio when he arrived at the hospital where the two officers died over the weekend. David lee miller is live in brooklyn. What did the mayor just say . One of the key things the mayor said, quoting him now, is we as citizens have an obligation to protect police. This was the first time that we heard from mayor de~blasio since the shooting incident took place on saturday. So, this was very significant. He made his remarks before the Police Athletic lead in midtown, manhattan, and went ton say the protesters must turn in anyone in their midst who might do harm. Before speaking, the mayor said he paid a visit to the homes of the two officers who were slain and then he went on to describe the anguish of the families. Theyre suffering. Theyre suffering an unspeakable pain right now. Its impressive when somehow people can put on a brave face, in the conversations we had you can tell theres a lot of fear what the future will hold. Reporter just a few moments ago we heard from the office of the attorney general, eric holder, his office saying that steps are being taken now to expedite the death benefits to the families of those two slain officers, those death benefits, harris, are administered by the justice department. I understand were also hearing today from the family of eric garner, who i mentioned earlier died during an nypd arrest. Reporter thats right, harris. Minutes before the mayors remarks, one of the daughters of eric garner came here to offer her condolences. She said that her father was a peaceful man. Her father, eric garner, died after he was alsoly put in a chokehold by a new York City Police officer. Demonstrations took place when a grand jury failed to indict. His daughter said that her dad was not violent, and violence should not be used in his name. Listen. My father wasnt a violent man. He was very peaceful. Theres ways you can do things without letting tragedy happen. We can get our voices heard. We can do what we need to do, but we just violence is not the answer. Going to pan over. Just to set the scene here a little bit for you, harris, it has started to rain near brooklyn, and Police Officers are now on hand. They are erecting some type of a temporary structure. You can see it here. That is going to be used to protect the makeshift memorial behind me. Throughout the day, harris, a great number of people have come here to offer their condolences, they are from all types of ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds. One woman put it this way. She said she marched against Police Brutality, and she is here now to stand against brutality to the police. As we watch that scene, we remind everybody and its my understanding, david lee, this was the first time publicly the mayor had said anything directly in terms of publicly giving condolences to the two families and now he has met in his meeting with the families of the fallen officers. President obama said he is outraged by what he called, quote, the senseless murders of the officers. He released a statement from hawaii where he and he first family are on vacation. Shannon has more on the white house reaction. Shannon, the president did make a statement. Why is he still taking heel at this point . He made a written statement. The white house says he also made critical calls, including to new York City Police commissioner William Bratton after the trajectory murder of the officers, offering the full support of the administration and also emphasized a need to condemn those who would use violence as a way to protest. But with the country reeling from the news of these officers executionstyle murders, many are calling for the president to take a break, as he has done during previous vacations, to speak on camera to the american people, feeling it would be helpful for the president to offer condolences and reassurances. The president has often weighed in in the aftermath of heated events or controversies but does not look like he will do that on camera. Im reading on blogs and hearing it, the criticism for president obama for what he did say. Yeah. These are some past comments that folks are reporting. He along with others, including attorney general eric holder and the new york city mayor, have openly questioned Police Procedures and announced investigations into Police Departments. Rudy giuliani says that has had an impact in his opinion. If you want to say that mayor de~blasio contributed to an atmosphere of hate for the police, absolutely he did. But so did the president of the United States, and so did holder. Today the justice departments number two said it is possible to have both conversations at once. On the one hand how police need to improve on their behalf and also ocean shores that violence from protesters is never acceptable. Harris. Shannon, thank you very much. The mayor of new york city wanted a little insight after the protests over the death of eric garner so he told staffers to dig up similar cases that happened in new york to see how city officials handled them. And one of those of cases, amadou diallo, four Police Officers shot and killed him 16 years ago, apparently mistaking him for a rape suspect and thought he was pulling a gun on them. It was his wallet. The case led to protesting across his mom, Kadiatou Diallo is here with us. Thank you for being here. My first question is, we continue to see developments in the story unfolding. We just heard from the mayor. Were expecting him to meet with the commissioner and that will be a public event as well. But i am curious to get your thoughts at this point. Thank you for having me. Of course. My heart is broken for the loss of these two officers. It was horrific event. As the mother of amadou diallo, my condolences to the families. I just want to say, what are we going to do about this situation now . It is my interest to really lend my voice to these situations. And i want to address to those individual who were protesting peacefully, it was good thing. But for those who are thinking about taking their guns and killing innocent people, including Police Officers, as the mother of amadou diallo, who suffered a terrible loss, many people would have think that i have hatred and desire for revenge, but in my heart i have no hatred, and i have no desire for vengeance. So, i want to send a message to them. That you can take your anger and your frustration, turn it into something positive. And do something that can bring people together. That actually is what i understand your message nor mayor, because you i heard you said it feels like were going backwards, you have a message for the mayor. What is it . This is bigger than the mayor, bigger than all of us as a community, and Law Enforcement community. We need to come together and be one community. Speak one voice, and be united more than ever now, is the time to call to action for everybody to play their role so that we can have a healing and peace and justice with peace. Social justice, legal justice. Nonviolent. That my calling. However this turns out, what i hear youre saying, too is its important that we go forward together. I know that you said this. My question for you now is, how this is kind of come together . We have just learn that the mayor for the first time publicly has given his condolences to the families and just now meeting with the families. This happened two days ago. I know you suffered a loss. Im curious if you could just maybe compare how the city has responded now and how they need 1999. I think when my son was killed in 1999, all communities came together, all religion, all races came together and this is what need to happen. It was happening before because i protested in washington recently, and many people are protesting peacefully, but for those who are thinking about turning their anger into violence, they need to think. If we as survivors or victims of Police Brutality can heal and ask the city to heal and come together and do something positive, this is the message im sending, not only to the mayor but everyone because its bigger than politic and bigger than ever. Its for a humanity. We need to come together. I know just a couple of moments ago you expressed your condolences to the families of the two fallen Police Officers. What would you say to their moms, families, wives, children . That i feel their pain, because i dont care who you are, whether youre a Police Officer or just civilian, minding your own business, you dont deserve to be killed. And those who are working hard to serve and protect are doing a very difficult job. We understand that. This is why i said i feel for them and since searly feel for that sincerely feel for that and also i want to add to respect and honor the memory of amadou, my son, and eric garner and all those people who were unjustly killed. People need to understand violence is not going to solve the problem. Interesting. Have people been kind of surprised by some of your comments . I know you have written about it, talked about it. Just in terms of your support for the Police Officers who were tasked with doing a big jobespecially now. I think that my message is for all of all the humanity, entire humanity, and because their message is my calling, and because of my son, who cannot speak today, and the personality that kind of life he led, his spirituality and his humanity, i think this translates to my words and i think i have admission. This is a mission of the Mamadou Diallo foundation, to continue to speak firmly about legal justice but nonviolence. Thank you. Im sorry for you loss. I appreciate your time today. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. More on the growing tension now in new york city. Well talk with a former nypd inspector and how Major Police Departments around the nation now are on high alert. I mentioned they were wearing bulletproof vests. That is still ahead. Stay with us. Also, the north korean government has apparently released a new set of threats against the United States, including specific targets for a possible attack. And this comes as u. S. Officials are blaming kim jonguns regime for that cyber attack on sony. Breaking minutes ago, were hearing reports that north koreas internet has gone dark. This is brand new. Did the United States take the north korean Propaganda Machine off line . What the pentagon is saying. Coming up from the fox news deck now. Dont go away. De blasio. And its de blasio we are hearing that north koreas Internet Service has completely gone dark and a cyber attack may have caused the outage, according to the Associated Press and the New York Times. Fox news cannot independently confirm this. Meanwhile, north korea is stepping up threats after president obama says the secretive regime was behind the Cyber Attacks on Sony Pictures. North korean officials are threatening to attack the white house and says president obama is spreading rumor, the president is considering placing north korea back on the terror list but in an interview yesterday he said it wasnt an act of war him called it cyber vandalism. This comes after sony scrapped the Christmas Day release of the interview that movie depicts the killing of north korean dictator kim jongun, and president obama is vacationing in hawaii with the first tamly. Lets go there now. Dan springer is live in honolulu. What are we hearing about the internet outage . Were hearing that on friday, the Internet Service in north korea got very shaky and then it went completely dark today, and theres a lot of speculation, of course, that eUnited States might be behind that. Were getting nothing from the white house. In fact, president obama has had a very low profile since arriving here in hawaii. He has done nothing on camera me and white house has no response for the latest threat that came in from north korea. Came from the north Korean National Defense Commission and said our toughes counteraction will be boldly taken against the white house, the pentagon, and the whole u. S. Mainland, by far surpassing the counteraction declared by obama. North korea denied it had anything to do with the cyber attack on sony and offered to conduct a joint investigation with the u. S. Today the state department ignored the offer and says it stands by the accusation against north korea. The government of north korea has a long history of denying responsibility for destructive and provocative actions and if they want to help theyed admit their culpability and compensate sony for the damages they caused. That compensation would be 70 million. Thats how much money sony put out to produce and promote the film in question. You know, dan there has been some criticism for the president not calling this what it is, senator john mccain said its not vandalism. What is the latest from republicans . Well, thats exactly right. Some people say that he has not had a response that has been quick enough or Strong Enough and that word that he used, cyber vandalism, is at the heart of this accusation. Heres senator marco rubio yesterday. North korea is going to be a growing problem for the foreseeable future. You have a person running the country that is me. Ly is memory mentally unstable. The state department it will not discuss weighed it would respond to the attack by north korea. Some well see, some we woken, perhaps we have seen it here with the internet going down in north korea but no confirmation, nothing out of white house here in hawaii. Dan springer, thank you very much. I a former cia covert Operations Officer and the assistant managing editor othe wall street journal will join us and im going to ask since the white house has not done anything we know of yet, how should we respond to north korea but a very Interesting Development with the enter neat. The United Nations Security Council is now deciding whether to try kim jongun in International Court for crimes against his own people. Things hitting up a bit today on north korea. Well get to all of it. Stay with us. Fox urgent now. More on todays United Nations Security Council i apologize theyre holding a meeting on what is being called Grave Human Rights Violations inside north korea and this is the first of its kind like this. 15member council, including north koreas ally china as well as the United States, u. K. , and russia and others. Theyre debating whether to try kim jongun in International Court for crimes against humanity. In february, a u. N. Report described crimes including murder, enslavement, rape and torture. A human rights investigator said there were many parallels win the evidence he heard and the crimes nazis committed in world war ii. North korea refused to attend todays Security Council meeting. No shocker there earlier this year north korea leaders released their own report claiming popular masses enjoy genuine human rights. Lets bring in stuart holliday, former u. S. Ambassador for special Political Affairs at the u. N. Currently the ceo of Meridian International center. Good to see you. This story is coming together, im trying to gather this. So you have heard lets start with the breaking news. Turning the internet off in north korea. Who might have done that . Is this something the United States could do . Would we be willing to do it . Well, i think you heard the president said there would be a response. We certainly have the capab