Nypd known at this time. And nationwide protests continue against police violence. A demonstration outside of the department of justice in washington is hours away. Theres no question a disturbed cop hating gunman named Ismaaiyl Brinsley killed these two men. Hes seen here from facebook. Brinsley made a newlywed bride a widow. Officer wenjian liu just married a few months ago. Brinsley took a father away from his two sons. Youll hear from ramos youngest son shortly. Well dedicate time to these officers but leaders also blame the deaths on mayor de blasio. They say he turned his back on his force under fire for the choke hold killing of eric garner. Some officers in a show of rejection and disrespect turned around, turned their backs on the mayor at the hospital over the weekend where crews transported the officers bodies. Minutes ago as we were taking live, the mayor himself had this to stay speaking at a charity event. Theyre suffering an unspeakable pain right now. Impressive when people can put on a brave face but in conversations we had you can tell theres a lot of fear on what the future will hold and we let them know that we would be there for them. That people such as good people in this room would be for them and we would forever forget them and never forget the sacrifice of officer ramos and officer liu who stood for all that is good in this society and we have to understand the attack on them was an attack on all of us. It was an attack on our democracy. It was an attack on our values. It was an attack on every single new yorker. Let me take you now to begin our coverage with sara live in brooklyn where those two officers were shot and killed. We just heard as you just heard from the mayor, bill de blasio and also the governor of new york has weighed in. Set the scene for me. Tell me what people are doing behind you and what have these leaders said . Reporter as you mention pd here, brooke, im at this memorial. Its been incredibly busy all day. Its really not very far from here. Youre well versed in this. You know that people in new york have been protesting in the last couple of weeks over the death of eric garner and over nypds handling of cases. That is so far from the scene here today. Members of the community have come here to hug Police Officers. They are lighting candles together. One woman this is so representative of the scene here she made a sign, a note for one of the sons of the slain officers and was having trouble posting it to the wall and an officer helped her rip off the duct tape and post those messages to that child. As you mentioned, weve seen over the weekend so much tension and back and forth between police and the Mayors Office. The governor did weigh in today. Andrew cuomo. He asked for a cooling off period. He said now is not the time for that conversation. I want to read to you a little bit of what he said this morning. He said, sometimes with high emotion you stop hearing and processing and thats where we are now. Its not productive. Its potentially destructive. Thats something weve been hearing from people here as weve been at this memorial this afternoon. Women have come up to us and said we dont agree that the mayor should have been criticized so strongly and so immediately after these murders. They believe that that kind of criticism can only lead to more violence and not anything productive. Well definitely talk much more about the strained relations between city hall, the mayor, police and we want to remind our viewers we should hear from commissioner bratton and mayor de blasio in just about an hour and a half. Stay with us. Well take that live. In the meantime, well dedicate much more coverage of course to lives lost over the weekend. Some of new yorks finest Police Officers. I can tell you as far as what happened or how this happened, Ismaaiyl Brinsleys deadly shootishoot i shooting spree started in baltimore, maryland, where he shot and killed his exgirlfriend. We get the time line of the atrocities. Reporter the shooters onslaught of terror began before 6 00 a. M. In baltimore, maryland. 28yearold Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot and seriously injured his exgirlfriend in her apartment hours before he would kill two new York City Police officers. One of the last posts he put on social media was this. I always wanted to be known for doing something right but my past is stalking me and my present is haunting me. The post followed with another ominous warning, im putting rings on pigs today. They took one of ours. Lets take two of theirs. The posts were flagged by authorities in baltimore but a message to be on alert in new york was too late. At 2 47 p. M. Without warning or provocation, brinsley walked up to the patrol car of new York Police Officers wenjian liu and rafael ramos. While sitting in a marked nypd police car in full uniform, they were ambushed and murdered in brooklyn. Liu and ramos never had a chance to draw their weapons. They were rushed to the hospital where they were later pronounced dead. Nearby officers gave chase. Brinsley shot him nevada in d and took his own life. Reporter they recovered a gun used in the killings. Saturday night at the hospital, more tense moments. New york mayor bill de blasio shows up to pay his respects and while walking past a row of police, officers turn their backs demonstrating their anger toward a mayor who they say shares part of the blame for the officers deaths. Theres blood on many hands tonight. That blood on the hands starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. Reporter for the family of slain officer rafael ramos, the focus was not on blame but on grief. Late saturday ramos 13yearold son wrote this on facebook. Today i had to say bye to my father. I will always love you and i will forever forget you. On sunday new York Police Department bill bratton released a message to his police force. May god grant officer ramos and liu rest and to all members of the service, be safe. Ni nick, thank you. The deaths of those two officers here in new york have rocked people who live in this area and certainly some across the nation including the emt first on the scene to see officer wenjian liu and officer rafael ramos clinging to life. He has a family and you dont know if youre going to make it to you put your life on the line every day for people. While these two mens murders are a national tragedy, they are not part of the nationwide protests against police abuse in minority communities. Thats the message from retired nba star kareem abduljabbar. He writes on time magazines website. Brinsley wasnt an impassioned activist expressing political frustration. He was a troubled man who had shot his girlfriend earlier in the day. None of this is behavior of a sane man or a rationale activist. I want to talk much more about this with cnn commentator. L. Z. , glad to have you on today. Im wondering with regard to what mr. Abduljabbar said, do you agree two totally separate issues here . Absolutely. I tweeted as much last night as more details started to show. The parents of the murderer talked about him possibly having undiagnosed Mental Illness and emotional issues and about his troubled childhood and the fact that hes had 18 to 20 arrests over his lifetime very well could be a byproduct of the fact that he was mentally ill in addition to being a criminal. Hes correct in that it would be a mistake to align what this one individual did with the protests and why they are peacefully protesting. So many of the protests weve seen not just here in new york but elsewhere for the most part have been peaceful but i do have to show our viewers this. Some of the chanting is hard to hear but these protesters in this one particular location calling on killing cops. When i was out working and covering some of the marches here in new york a couple weeks ago for the most part peaceful but toward the end of the night i saw some of these protesters getting in the faces of some of the officers saying f the police and its a notion of racism versus policism. This is not a new conversation unfortunately. I am not saying i support the chants that you heard. I have friends who are Police Officers. I was talking to a Police Officer earlier this morning about what was going on in new york. I do not support this at all. With that being said, this is a conversation weve been having in this country for decades. New york city specifically had protesters back in the early 90s that stemmed from violence that happened with Police Officers. As a matter of fact at that time it was the Police Officers, thousands of Police Officers who marched, blocked traffic in brooklyn bridge, marched to city hall because they were against what the mayor was trying to do in terms of addressing the issue of not having trust with the Police Officers. This is an issue that country has faced and new york city has faced in particular time and time again. Until we are willing to face the tough questions headon and stop deflecting and politicizing things, were not going to get past this. Where does this need to go . Its not a new narrative. Whats the next step in this dialogue . I think the very first thing we have to do is get both sides of the issue to admit that no side is perfect. In other words, there are definitely things that Minority Community can do to help ease the tension but there are also things that Police Officers and Police Department can do to help ease the tension. When i look back at a situation in cleveland and were talking about a 12yearold boy shot and killed for having a toy and how the police rallied around the guy saying it was a justified shooting, even though the person they hired was deemed unfit to serve and was too immature to have a gun by his previous employer, they still employed that guy and then rallied around him. Why not call out the mistakes that were made . That would ease so much tension as opposed to filling the needs to rally around people who have done harm. So just as its important that the Minority Community talk about the violence within its own community and i definitely think that we need to continue doing that, there needs to be a level of selfreflection within Police Departments around this country and say every single Police Officer is not a good cop and every single Police Officer is not a person who should actually be on these streets. Two separate incidents and for now with regard to what happened over the weekend it is absolutely a day of mourning as the mayor said. Its an attack on every single new yorker. L. Z. Granderson, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you. Coming up, i want to focus on the two lives lost of this weekends tragic shooting. Two officers dreamed of becoming cops. Their tragic stories, who they are leaving behind up next. Later, the heart pounding moments when First Responders tried desperately to save these two men. Hear their story. Were back in a minute. But ended up nowhere. Now. I use this. 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Ramos leaves behind his wife, his son, justin, who is in college, and 13yearold jayden, his other son who posted this to his Facebook Page speaking of his father. He was the best father i could ask for. I will always love you. I will never forget you. Rest in peace, dad. Members of the ramos family and the community spoke about the tragedy last night. This a tragic time to deal with this senseless violence. Were losing people in the community but now were losing Police Officers to the same stupid rhetoric that deals with guns. We stand here unified with this family, with the ramos family, our hearts are painstakingly crushed right now. Now is the time for us to get to the table. Our elected officials, our community folks, and not just one particular person, Everybody Needs to be at the table so we can generate the necessary information to move this community forward. Mr. Mayor, you need to have a sitdown and you need to get everything corrected from the Mayors Office down because this is wrong. We need you to work with the community and the Police Department. We dont need you to just go to one side. The Police Department needs you as well. What about if those were your sons sitting in the patrol car . You have to understand, new york is a corporation. Theres a dollar amount associated with everything that goes down. That being said, apparently we look at those as keeping the city running. Having mandates on Police Officers is not the way to go. This makes people frustrated and thats why you get the attitude you get with Police Officers because they are pushed out there there to come after us. We stand behind our Police Department and those who put on the uniform to do the job that needs to be done to keep us safe. I dont know who got the impression this community is not behind the Police Department and they can come here and take them out. We went allow that to continue to happen. Its unacceptable. I would like to thank all of those who have shared their sympathy and support for our beloved family member, rafael ramos, who will always be loved and missed by many. I hope and pray that we can reflect on this tragic loss of lives that have occurred so we can move forward and find an amicable path to a peaceful coexistence. We would like to extend our condolences to the liu family also. Thank you. Officer lius family came to america from china. The 32 year old had served seven years with nypd before that he had served as an auxiliary officer and a friend tells the New York Times when asked why he wanted to become an officer, he replied, i know that being a cop is dangerous, but i must do it. If i dont do it and you dont do it, who is going to do it . Liu just started a new life with his bride. Sunday would have been their threemonth wedding anniversary. Let me bring in reverend calvin butts and chris smith, contributing editor for new york magazine. I hate the circumstances of you being back her. Well hear from both the Police Commissioner, bratton and also from the mayor in just about an hour from now. When i got the news, it was like a punch in the gut as someone just recently moved to new york. You all are lifelong new yorker. To hear that these two partners had been asass nasassinated ove weekend doing their jobs, how did you take the news . To either of you . The news came via media. And i was shocked. I was in great dismay because of the tensions that were already in the city. I was saddened because i have several members of my family who are in Law Enforcement and i know the risk that they take, and i have many members of the church who are in Law Enforcement and i have done funerals for Police Of