#Africans DISGUSTED as two NYPD cops are EXECUTED! Anti-Police movement reaches a bad height!

Two New York City police officers were killed today, both shot as they sat in their patrol vehicle in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, city officials said.

The suspect Ismaayil Brinsley, 28 in the shooting was also dead, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the officials said. The gunman walked up to the officers sitting inside a patrol car and opened fire shortly before 3 p.m., officials said.

The suspect ran into a nearby subway station and shot himself, officials. Hours after the shooting, dozens of police in tactical gear cordoned off a roughly three-block area around the site of the shooting, while other officers watched over the scene from rooftops in the area.

The shooting comes at a time when police nationwide are being heavily criticized for the deaths of unarmed black men. In New York City, Eric Garner, a black man who was stopped by police for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, died after an officer put him in a chokehold. The suspect apparently shot and wounded his ex girlfriend, posted a threat on instagram in Baltimore and traveled to NYC to deliberately KILL COPS!

"I can't breathe" -- words Garner could be heard gasping during his arrest, which was captured on an amateur video -- have become a rallying cry for demonstrators across the country.

One city councilman told ABC station WABC-TV in New York that the shooting in Brooklyn was "the worst thing that could have happened."

Brinsley posted a sinister message on Instagram earlier Saturday along with an image of a silver handgun and hashtags invoking the names of Michael Brown and Eric Garner after reportedly shooting and wounding a former girlfriend in Baltimore.

“I’m Putting Wings On Pigs Today. They Take 1 Of Ours...Let’s Take 2 of Theirs ... This May Be My Final Post...I’m Putting Pigs In A Blanket.” Brinsley wrote, with the hashtags #ShootThePolice #RIPErivGarner #RIPMike Brown.

According to Baltimore police, Brinsley shot and wounded a former girlfriend there around 5:45 a.m. Saturday before traveling to Brooklyn, Bratton said. The woman's mother contacted Baltimore police after she noticed Brinsley's comments on Instagram.

Baltimore police faxed a bulletin describing Brinsley to NYPD headquarters that arrived at 2:45 p.m., Bratton said, at almost the exact moment Brinsley opened fire on Liu and Ramos. Bratton said the ambush was at 2:47 p.m. in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

Bratton said according to a witness, Brinsley took a shooting stance on the passenger side of the police cruiser and fired several times striking both officers in the head. The pair, he said, never had the chance to draw their own weapons and may never have seen their assailant.

“Both officers paid the ultimate sacrifice today,” Bratton said.

Brinsley later fatally shot himself in the head on a subway platform after fleeing the scene.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, speaking after the commissioner, called the attack an "assassination" and said that when a police officer is attacked, every New Yorker should feel as though they were attacked.

“Although we are still learning the details, it’s clear that this was an assassination. These officers were shot execution style,” de Blasio said. “A particularly despicable act … when a police officer is murdered, it tears at the very foundation of our society.”

"Our city is in mourning, our hearts are heavy," he said.
There have been protests almost nightly in New York City since the grand dury decisions in the police-involved deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Cops in both cases were not indicted.

The mayor has been sharply criticized by New York City police union leaders for comments perceived as unsupportive of the city's police force after an officer investigated in the chokehold death of Staten Island man Eric Garner was not indicted.

Until today, no NYPD officer had been fatally shot since December 2011, when Peter Figoski, a 22-year veteran, responded to a report of a break-in at a Brooklyn apartment and was shot in the face by one of the suspects hiding in a side room. The shooter, Lamont Pride, was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2013 to 45 years to life in prison.

On Facebook, I wrote that it is NOT acceptable! Everyone in Bedford is quiet. #nypdlivesmatter #blacklivesmatter #BedfordStuyvesant it is NOT acceptable. The police hate going on in America is partly fueling this. A suicidal person doesn't have to kill innocent officers 5 days before Christmas to make a statement. A community must AVOID THIS! #RIPNYPD

New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, speaking at a press conference Saturday night, confirmed the identity of the shooter as 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley. He identified the two slain cops as partners Wenjian Liu and Raphael Ramos. Many of us here are outraged in Nigeria on this case!

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With files from ABC and Yahoo News

KUDOS to @RichmondPolice Chief Magnus for making an IMPACT in his community #Richmond #Virginia

Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus, who set off an avalanche of emotions when he held up a “#Black Lives Matter” sign at a local protest, says he wouldn’t hesitate if placed in the same situation. I have my own personal views on this matter. This is a police department I'm very familiar with both on social media and in the 90's when I visited there a lot in the 90's

That city has a very high black population and equally many black gun homicides. I have even helped the department tweet unsolved murders on my own accord, because I feel that police departments need as much help as they can get solving murders.

“Sure, I would do it again, but I would like to be a little better prepared for the fallout,” Magnus said Monday.

The police chief said he and about a half dozen other members of his command staff were at a community center when the protest began Dec. 9, and that a woman he was chatting with “on issues of the day” asked if he would hold the sign.

I looked at it for a minute and realized this is actually pretty innocuous,” Magnus said. “That 'black lives matter’ is something that I would think that we should all be able to agree upon. All lives matter.”

“I thought it was an important gesture of goodwill,” he added.

Not everyone agreed. The Richmond Police Officers Association said in a release that the chief was violating state law against politicking in uniform.

“It certainly wasn’t intended to be a political statement,” Magnus said, adding that he was not campaigning for any candidate or ballot measure.

“It was intended to be a humane statement,” Magnus said.

Still, he understands the reaction.

“I can understand how it is hard for a lot of police officers, especially given what has gone on in some the protests — the violence ... the anti-police sentiment,” Magnus said.

As for how the chief would have felt if one of his officers had held up a sign in support of Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson, who shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, triggering protests across the county?

“I would have been appalled. And I think there is a real difference,” Magnus said. “My statement was about building bridges. “A statement like support of Darren Wilson, especially under the circumstances, is incredibly divisive and I think inappropriate.”

Meanwhile, the reaction to Magnus’ sign waving, which gained nationwide attention, continues to roll in.

“The majority of what I have seen has been pretty positive and heartfelt,” he said, though “there certainly has been some critical reaction and I’m not surprised by that.”

Has he learned a lesson from the decision to hold the sign?

“I learned that three words can have an extremely powerful impact,” Magnus said. “I don’t think this is a movement or a situation that is going to disappear.”

KUDOS to Chief Magnus for at least caring about his community. The people of Richmond and even other cities should all work with their police departments. Listen to my podcast below on how cops and community must get along. When you work together, you progress together.

With Files from SF Gate

#BREAKING LAPD SHOOTS and KILLS an alleged knife wielding suspect

A knife-wielding suspect, shot by LAPD officers at the intersection of Hollywood & Highland, has died. The intersection remains closed tonight.

Eyewitnesses say tourists on the famous boulevard ran for cover as the confrontation escalated into gunfire. Many of those eyewitnesses have posted dramatic images of the frightening scene. One Jordan White posted this tweet with over 16,000 retweets and it looks like an eyewitness account. I have reached out to Jordan on Twitter on my main news account @HNNAfrica

@jordanwhiteLA KOO @HNNAfrica. Waking up to this at 8.30am #Nigeria. Did u see him wielding that knife? Email me hnnafricanews@yahoo.com
— IG: @HNNAfrica (@HNNAfrica) December 6, 2014

#Alburquerque Police officer fired for refusing to turn on body cam as shooting of a 19-year-old that should be on tape is being investigated.

The idea of putting body-worn cameras on police officers has spread since protests and unrest following the shooting of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. Earlier this week, the Obama administration proposed federal funding to get 50,000 more officers equipped with the cameras.

The increased use of cameras makes a few policy questions around them more pressing. One such question: what happens when a police officer fails—or straight-up refuses—to turn on the body camera?

The issue was highlighted in today's Wall Street Journal, which features a story about a New Mexico police officer who "was fired for allegedly not following an order to record and upload all contacts with citizens," according to the Albuquerque Police Department and the officer's lawyer.

Officer Jeremy Dear shot and killed a 19-year-old woman in April, an incident that heightened the already intense scrutiny of the Albuquerque Police Department. The city's police department had earlier reached a deal with the US Department of Justice, after a federal investigation concluded that police there "had used a pattern of excessive force."

Dear's lawyer, Thomas Grover, says the officer tried to activate the camera but couldn't. He also says there was never an order issued to record all citizen contacts.

The department says Dear's action was deliberate. “Insubordination tears at the fabric of public safety, especially when the officer makes a choice not to follow a lawful order," said the city's police chief in a statement.

"If they fire every officer who doesn't turn on his uniform camera, they won't have anyone left on the department," Grover told a Reuters reporter. "I think the department is struggling to get the lapel camera policy in place and set an example of him to show the Department of Justice they are doing something."

However the Albuquerque situation gets resolved, similar disputes are likely to be seen nationwide as more departments, willingly or under pressure, use body cameras.

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Latest Killing Of Unarmed Black Man By White Officer Sparks Protests In #Arizona

A white officer killed an unarmed black man in Phoenix on Tuesday, echoing similar recent incidents in New York and Missouri.

According to The Arizona Republic, Phoenix police received a tip that a man in a car was dealing drugs. They tried to apprehend Rumain Brisbon outside his Phoenix apartment complex and Brisbon ran. According to police, the officer gave chase, caught with him, saw him dig into his pocket, before tumbling into an apartment where Birsbon's two children lived.

That's where the officer opened fire, killing Brisbon, who was only found to be carrying a bottle of oxycodone pills. The narratives are similar to what we've heard in the past: Police say the officer felt threatened so he shot.The Arizona Republic reports Brisbon's friends say otherwise:


"Brandon Dickerson, who said he was in the car with Brisbon shortly before the shooting and witnessed some of the incident, said Brisbon was dropping off fast food to his children in the apartment. On Wednesday evening, strewn french fries still littered the front porch.

"Dickerson said he never saw the officer try to talk with Brisbon. He also said his friend wasn't yelling at the officer.

"'Who's gonna argue with police?' Dickerson said. 'He had no death wish yesterday.'"

The Washington Post reports that friends say Brisbon was "a gentle father of four who was dropping off fast food for his kids at his family's apartment."

By Thursday night, after police released details of the incident, protesters took to the streets of Phoenix.

NBC News reports about 100 people demonstrated in front of Phoenix Police Department headquarters.

NBC News reports:

"'This one went bad from the standpoint of how it ended, but the officer was doing exactly what we want him to do,' Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman, said at a news conference Wednesday.

"But Ann Hart, chairwoman of the African American Police Advisory Board for South Phoenix, said the shooting only reinforces 'the impression it's open season for killing black men.'

"'We need to look into that,' Hart told NBC station KPNX of Phoenix. 'We need to take a deeper dive into why police officers are feeling compelled to shoot and kill as opposed to apprehend and detain, arrest and jail.'"

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@STLCountyPD Caught MOCKING Tamir Rice Shooting in #Cleveland THEN DELETES TWEET!

Matthew Champion of the Independent wrote: This tweet was sent from a verified police account. Today, the police force in the county where Michael Brown was killed decided to weigh in on a killing of another unarmed black youth.

In a tweet and Facebook post that have now both been deleted, the St Louis County Police Department flippantly discussed the case of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy shot by police in Cleveland, Ohio, because he was playing with a toy gun.

The social media posts are especially insensitive given they come a day after a grand jury in New York announced it would not indict a white police officer who placed a black man in an outlawed chokehold - a chokehold from which 43-year-old Eric Garner died.

I was critical of the shooting of Tamir with no CPR immediately after as teh officers waited when they could have taken the BB gun. The gun issue will be a major topic of my activism @Snitchlady twitter in 2015.

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