an absolute bottomless well spring of goodwill for the police in new york city. i was talking to a retired police captain the other night, immediately after hearing the news, the people of bedforuyvesant would rally around the police, no surprise here. so many people showing respect. shortly before the police shooting, brinsley put up a quote, i m putting wings on pigs today. they took one of ours. let s take two of theirs. then the hash tag, rip eric garner and rip michael brown. he shot his girlfriend who currently remains hospitalized. let s listen to the sister of the shooter. he was an emotionally troubled young man, and he was
perpetual risk at perpetual risk. the dangers he may face from police officers. not that they ll protect him, but they ll attack him. and this comes after the death with no crime indicted of eric garner who refused to be arrested, by the way. and so the mayor s basically saying my son too could be killed by new york city police officers. and if the mayor says i don t think i m responsible in any way for the fact that someone then took murderous revenge on officers, then it is unbelievable. this guy has to go or the city is in bad hands. and bill bratton should go too if he wants to keep all the great things he s done in his career intact. the other big thing is in the big picture, retraining the finest police force ever. that s what they agreed to do? retrain them? what an insult that is. the whole policing program, wearing body cameras and the rest of it is an insult to police
believing them to be a c.i.a. officer, those folks often go to jail. maybe they shouldn t but they do. this man instead targeted officers knowingly, described his motive, invited people to follow him, posted on facebook his intentions and did it, he said, for retribution for events that the mayor says or said were reprehensible. sure. it was a revenge murder. keith, it was a hate crime. the guy hated cops. he had a bias against cops. a very public, very powerful public officials have made it okay to hate the cops. there s no question that the mayor has to, i would say, just out of intellectual honesty assume responsibility for launching a hate offensive against new york police officers. and, by the way, against the judiciary. the judiciary came back, a grand jury, and said that in the case of eric garner, no one need be indicted.
of course. they want more cops. where the cameras show up and protesters show up, it is the guys who are doing, selling drugs and unsavory activity finding their way to the cameras to speak out against the cops in the area. howard sabre has been on this program many times and he fault the president and the mayor for over the last couple of months after ferguson and after eric garner being antipolice. here he is, the former commissioner of new york city. in over 40 years in police work i ve never seen an atmosphere like this. there have been incidents in the past when i was police commissioner and since. when you get the usual suspects raving about the police. but now we have a president, an attorney general, a mayor going after police officers. we have to see a distinction because there is a real distinction. eric garner and michael brown lost their lives committing crimes. these two hero police
officers. this morning we are learning more about the hours leading up to this deadly ambush. jonathan hunt is live in brooklyn at the scene of the shooting. thanks for being with us, jonathan. what more can you tell us this morning? good morning, elisabeth. a makeshift memorial to those two slain officers is growing by the hour. behind me here, among the messages written there, prayers for the families and indeed for the whole new york police department. the killer, ismaalyl brinsley, began his day in baltimore where he shot a former girlfriend. she is in critical condition but is expected to survive. he then took a bus to new york, writing on his instagram account as he traveled quote i m putting wings on pigs today. they take one of ours. let s take two of theirs. hash tag shoot the police, hash tag r.i.p. eric garner. hash tag r.i.p. michael