Police officers turned their backs to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he entered a news conference addressing the fatal shooting of two officers on Saturday.
De Blasio spoke alongside Police Commissioner Bill Bratton at Woodhull Hospital, where two officers were pronounced dead after being ambushed by a gunman.
Officers Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjian Liu, were near Myrtle Avenue and Tompkins Avenue in the Brooklyn neighborhood Bedford-Stuyvesant when Ismaaiyl Brinsley approached their patrol car and began shooting at the officers.
Below is a video shared on YouTube showing NYPD cops giving de Blasio the cold shoulder:
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Brinsley, 28, fled to a nearby subway station and shot himself after killing the officers. Police officials confirmed that earlier in the day, Brinsley was in Baltimore and shot his 29-year-old ex-girlfriend in the stomach.
This comes after NYPD union leader Patrick Lynch criticized de Blasio for not supporting police officers after a grand jury decided against indicting an officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.
Lynch started a campaign to keep de Blasio from attending the funerals of fallen officers.
Here is the petition:
