We Need A Nationwide Stand Down
Unnecessary loss of lives on both sides no matter how mad you get don't shoot. Retreat is an option.
This is where the realities of one problem become the guttural of another problem.
I've endured knowing officers and victims killed on both sides. In story like this both sides lose as we have more children without fathers or more families without sons.
New York (CNN)
-- Officer Rafael Ramos sat in the driver's seat. Officer Wenjian
Liu was at his side.
The two cops weren't at their usual precinct -- normally, the pair was assigned to downtown Brooklyn, but they were working a "critical response" detail in an area with higher crime, police said.
That's where they were slain, ambush-style -- Saturday afternoon as they sat in their patrol car, New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said at an evening news conference.
New York Police Officer Rafael Ramos
New York Police Officer Wenjian Liu
The gunman approached the passenger side of the patrol car and took a shooting stance,
witnesses told police. He opened fire several times,
striking both officers in the head,
Bratton said.
