Monday, December 12, 2016

2016 was a deadly year for cops — and BLM may be to blame

http://nypost.com ^ | 12/11/2016 | Andrea Peyser 

Blue lives matter — now as much as ever.
It was Dec. 20, 2014. As New York City Police Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu sat in their squad car in Brooklyn, suddenly and without warning, they were ambushed by gun-wielding assassin Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28.
The madman had driven from Baltimore to the city, ranting on Instagram that he planned to put “wings on pigs” to avenge the deaths at the hands of police of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
The deranged murderer then fled into a nearby subway station, where he committed suicide by gun as cops closed in.
The loss of the two fine men in blue, who were posthumously promoted to detectives, struck terror into hearts all over the city and brutalized two families, never to recover.
“I’m down, it’s not a good day,’’ Maritza Ramos, 40, who in an instant turned from a cop’s wife into a widow, told me when I reached her on the telephone Thursday...
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