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So i think it's important that regardless of people's viewpoints, that everyone recognize it's a time to step back and just focus on these families. i think it's 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 organizations that were planning events or gatherings that are about politics and protests, that can be...

Office of the mayor. >> put aside protests. put a i side demonstrations. until these funerals are past, let's 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. >> it's 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 the deaths of michael brown and eric garner after grand juries in new york and missouri decided no...

Fallen officers. here's what he said at a press conference. >> this is across the spectrum, to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations until these funerals are passed, let's 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 it's because the police are not backed by the mayor. wolf? >> certainly is bitter and that divide ...

Aside protests, put aside demonstrations, until these funerals are passed, let's focus on these families and what they have lost. i think that's the right way and try and build towards a more unified and decent city. i also think it's important to recognize we can't 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 intervene personally in any way they can. this is another example, once this very troubled individua...

Began after the garner grand jury decision, the protest in new york, the protests have turned uncreasingly ominous for the police. there's 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 that's okay? >> john gaskin in the aftermath of ferguson and on staten island, there's been a new movement out there but the deaths of these two p...