Two NYPD Officers Executed

Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging the activists who've been flooding the streets to protest police brutality to pause their demonstrations. "I think it's important that regardless of people's viewpoints, that everyone recognize it's a time to step back and just focus on these families [of the slain officers]," de Blasio said. "I think it's a time for everybody to put aside political debates, put aside protests, put aside all of the things we will talk about in due time."
Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, who were fatally shot in their squad car in broad daylight Saturday, "stood for all that is good in our society," de Blasio said today. "We have to understand, an attack on them is an attack on all of us. It was an attack on our democracy, it was an attack on our values, it was an attack on every single New Yorker."
De Blasio asked that protests be set aside until after the officers' funerals. "That should be our only concern," de Blasio said. "Politics and protest can be for another day. Then debate can begin again. But until that time it is our obligation to respect them."
There is still no indication that the officers' killer, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, was politically active or had participated in the recent wave of demonstrations.