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Police officers slaying raises pressure on New York mayor
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced the biggest crisis of his time in office on Sunday following the fatal shooting of two police officers, in an attack intended as retribution for recent U.S. police killings of unarmed black men.
2-Gunman with possible revenge in mind kills two NYC police officers
NEW YORK, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A gunman ambushed and fatally shot two New York City police officers on Saturday and then killed himself, police said, and a social media post indicated it may have been in revenge for the police chokehold death of an.
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(REUTERS/NYPD/Handout via Reuters). If the killings do turn out to have been motivated by the death of Eric Garner, they could inflame tension over race and law enforcement that have dogged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, sparked protests around.
Gunman with possible revenge in mind kills two NYC police officers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gunman ambushed and fatally shot two New York City police officers on Saturday and then killed himself, police said, and a social media post indicated it may have been in revenge for the police chokehold death of an unarmed black.
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If the killings do turn out to have been motivated by the death of Eric Garner, they could inflame tensions over race and law enforcement that have dogged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, sparked protests around the country and drawn in President.
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In response to renewed demonstrations last week, after a Staten Island grand jury returned no indictment against the officer who wrapped his arm around Garners neck while trying to arrest him, Mayor Bill de Blasio asserted that ���tragedies will be.
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Gunman with possible revenge in mind kills two NYC police.
NEW YORK (Reuters) ��� A gunman ambushed and fatally shot two New York City police officers on Saturday and then killed himself, police said, and a social media post indicated it may have been in revenge for the police. The officers were killed without warning and at close range as they sat in their squad car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Police Commissioner William Bratton told a news conference, flanked by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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