“This is probably the worst day for the Police Department since 9/11,” a veteran officer said Dec. 23, referring to the murders of Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos as they sat in their patrol car outside a Brooklyn housing project three days earlier. “There’s like shell-shock.”
Then he added, “I don’t like people saying de Blasio has blood on his hands. To me, the guy who shot the two cops, this guy wasn’t a political assassin, he was an emotionally disturbed person, an EDP. It’s not like he was in there with the protesters. Some cops say de Blasio created an environment, but [Ismaaiyl Brinsley] was a lone wolf, not a part of the demonstrators. This was like the guy with the ax who stabbed the cop in Jamaica” back in October.
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