over this city police precincts and talking to officers who did extraordinary things giving accolades to those who were such positive examples of the work this department does. talking to everyday new yorkers about what it means to them. people of this city appreciate our police. they appreciate how hard the work is and they see the progress we re making. yesterday tens of thousands paid their respects to detective liu and his family. so many people who couldn t be at funeral talked to me and so many members of my administration about their feeling for the families, their willingness to do everything they could to help those families because they understand what a profound sacrifice was made on behalf of the people of this city. people feel a lot for detective liu s family. they feel a lot for detective ramos family. that is a commitment that with
rafael ramos. wenjian liu s family did not make any statements about the protest. wenjian liu s wife spoke calling her husband her soul mate. you are an amazing man. wenjian liu will always be in our hearts. we love you. i loved you. forever love you. joining me now is new york times writer david goodman who covers the nypd. thank you for your time here. thank you for having me. for many obviously, detective liu s wife words are what they would like to be the headline. what would like to be talking about and that she adored and loved her husband and certainly wants him to be remembered as the loving detective that he was
now, we know this is very difficult work. i ve spent the last year all over this city police precincts and talking to officers who did extraordinary things, giving accolades to those who were such positive examples of the work this department does. talking to everyday new yorkers what it means to them. people in the city appreciate our police. they appreciate how hard the work is and see the progress we re making. yesterday, tens of thousands paid their respects to detective liu and his family, and so many people who couldn t be at the funeral, talked to me and so many members of my administration, about their feeling for those families their willingness to do offering they could to help the families because the understand what a profound sacrifice was made on
all right. sara ganim, thank you so much. one quick question we have tom fuentes standing by. you see sort of this outpouring of support. do you think we are now at a turning point in terms of relations with the nypd, with the mayor, and even really with the protesters who have been out there demonstrating and shown really their animosity towards police? deb, i don t know the answer to that. i think we won t know that until tomorrow let s say, when the funerals are over the requests for everybody to be civil to one another is over. the mayor has met with the leaders. we ll see if that takes effect but i don t think we ll really know the answer to that today. probably tomorrow. do you think ultimately the police officers will heed the commissioner s request not to turn their backs, to honor the memory of detective liu? i think they will out of respect to detective liu and respect for commissioner bratton both. bratton has been a street cop himself. i think they re more likely to
and thank god that we never had to take that. but i think this is an inappropriate time for this. certainly there s problems between the new york city police department and the mayor, and that s not the time right now to deal with this. those are issues that have to be dealt with at another time and another place. this is a respect for two officers who guy the ultimate sacrifice. when one says i understand what he s talking about and as a police officer, we all understand that, but this is a time when we need to think about detective liu and detective ramos and what they went through. and i wonder what you think, you served for 29 1/2 years and instead of all the focus being on this amazing man that officer liu was, 32 years old, you know came to this country at 12 years old as a chinese immigrant, built this incredible life for himself, just got married. we re talking about more officers turning their back. this takes away from do you think this takes away from him? yes, it di