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Me that they believe the tone that the attorney general and a lot of elected officials who have been dealing with these protests have taken, that they weren't doing enough to give the backing of police officers. today at a press conference, unrelated press conference, jim cole, the deputy attorney general addressed this question when i asked him about it. >> what you have to be able to do is have a conversation about isolated instances where we see profiling, where we see excessive force. and at the same time, we have to make sure that our officers are safe and that we do everything we can to ...

The nypd is investigating more than 15 direct threats posted on social media. under intense criticism for his comments on recent protests, the new york city mayor, bill de blasio, is calling the murders an attack on democracy seasoned a appealing for protests to be put aside until the police officers are buried. we're also getting new information about urgent efforts by baltimore authorities to warn police in new york city that the gunman went there with an intent of attacking and killing police officers. the naacp president cornell william brooks is standing by along with our correspondents, ...

New york's mayor under enormous fire right now for earlier remarks. he's urging a pause in the protests over police violence. says police must be respected. we're back with cornell william brooks, the president and ceo of the naacp. once again, cornell, thanks very much for joining us. people focus in on most of the protests -- there are tens of thousands. honorable, decent. but there were some who were ugly and terrible. we heard this in new york the other day. i'll play some clips because it's disgusting but presumably it gets picked up. listen to. >> what do we want? dead cops! when do we w...

The other thing is, you never know when one of these persons, maybe somebody who has mental issues, will act out and will carry out something like this. and worse, wolf, the ones who don't even speak out. and so the question is, what do you blame this on? do you blake it on the protests? do you blame this on what's going on -- this time of year, there are a lot of people with mental issues act out. it's christmastime. it's not clear what's driving it. >> guys, stand by. i want to bring in cornell william brooks, the president and ceo of the naacp. he's joining us here in "the situation room." ...

Witnessed. somebody wrote on twitter i shouldn't have said anything when i expressed my regrets because i was one of the protesters. it's the protesters above everyone else who should feel bad about this situation because the protest was to raise public awareness about a specific issue in community relations between the police and the community and not any overall indictment of the police. i love the police. they protected me for four years. they were wonderful. >> so many people are saying, listen, these are two different events. you have the killing and murdering of these two officers and th...