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New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday that
tensions in the city are echoing those in the 1970s — a fear he expressed
only days prior to the ambush killings of two police officers.
“Who would’ve ever thought déjà vu all over again, that we would be back
where we were 40-some-odd years ago,” Bratton said in an interview on NBC’s
“Today.”
When asked whether he had seen such tensions or divide before, Bratton
replied, “1970, when I first came into policing — my first 10 years were
around this type of tension.”
Bratton’s assessment comes as two NYPD officers were shot and killed
Saturday afternoon. The suspect of the killings invoked the police-involved
deaths of Missouri teen Michael Brown and New Yorker Eric Garner in an
Instagram post before shooting officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in
their patrol car.
Bratton identified protests that followed the decisions by separate grand
juries to not indict police officers in Brown and Garner’s deaths as a
factor in the subsequent killings of Ramos and Liu.
“It’s quite apparent, quite obvious, that the targeting of these two police
officers was a direct spinoff of this issue of these demonstrations,” the
police chief said.
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