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Take one of ours. let's take two of theirs. you know what, stand by there, jim. wnbc reporter mark santio. what can you tell us about what the police commissioner and the mayor shared with all of us, especially since they met face to face with the families of these officers? >> heavy press conference. very somber. there were more police officers in the auditorium of the hospital than there were members of the media. everyone was glued listening to the commissioner and the mayor. the mayor talked about the difficulty, meeting with both families. one of the officers recently married and the othe...

Any human organization. give them the tools. doesn't mean they can't be fairly criticized but can't be threatened or attack. we have to take action to stop that. this is so heartbreaking this holiday week for the nypd. they've had this before. i can remember back 40 years ago when foster and laurie, two patrolmen were assassinated brutally. they've had it before as the commissioner said. and they'll live through it. they're the largest department in the united states. one of the largest in the world with 35,000 officers and they do a great job of policing that city. so everybody needs to think...

Out on it and shhimself in the head. raphiael ramos, left behind a wife, his 13-year-old son and his partner, wen gin luu from the 84th precinct. the gunman, 28-year-old brinsly who went, traveled from baltimore after shooting an injurying his exgirlfriend, posting on insta gram of his intentions going to new york with ties to the east flat bush area of new york and then going to these police officers in their marked vehicle while they were uniformed and execution style shot at them through the front passenger window. the officers never had a chance to draw their weapon and maybe didn't see th...

In the wake of all these protests we've seen across the country. these die-ins that we've been seeing and in many cases, you hear some chanting of people calling on harm. did he play an attack against police officers and you hear and see people calling for that. >> right. that's absolutely reprehensible when people call or chant to harm an officer. that is insightful in my view. it turns from the peaceful legitimate protest. it wouldn't be condemned by the likes of dr. king who was not that kind of person or nelson mandela type who wanted peace, wanted to reconcile. that we should learn from t...

Threat is that they receive specific threats in their city or there's been specific activity. it goes back to the violence that people engage in violence around any kind of a national controversy or national event or take some type of issues that come up in a democracy and think they can go out and commit violence and kill behind it. but you know, the bravery of all police comes to mind that they go through these things and constantly go back out each and every night. you heard the retired nypd captain talked about the assassinations over the years, but the officers come out to patrol every da...