"" Non-violence is the only way to fight for justice, Pastor Al Sharpton, figure civil rights ""
The two men were attacked by a black man who shot them while they were in their patrol car in Brooklyn. Colleagues, traumatized made their final tribute. The NYPD had not been mourning for three years.
Their attacker was pursued as he fled on foot, he ended his days on a subway platform nearby.
The killer, identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley, was 28 years old and had boasted on social media want to kill police officers, but no apparent terrorist link according to NYPD. Brinsley had come to Baltimore, 300 km south of New York where he had earlier shot his girlfriend seriously wounding.
The Democratic mayor of New York Bill de Blasio, whose relations are difficult with its police, also denounced yesterday a "killing like an execution and called the people of New York to become one with his policy."
This drama comes amid racial tensions revived after Eric Garner case. A black father died during a violent arrest in Staten Island, one of the boroughs of New York in July.
Figure of civil rights, the Rev. Al Sharpton said he was outraged "denouncing any association between the death of the police and the Garner case while calling back to non-violence as the only way to fight for justice."
President Barack Obama who just go on vacation in Hawaii was informed of the situation according to the White House.
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