Mayor Bill DeBlasio, who got flack from the New York police union, says, "When a police officer is murdered, it tears at the foundation of our society." As opposed to when an unarmed black man is killed, I suppose.
Click the picture above to access the NPR video report with Graham Weatherspoon, a retired detective with the New York City Police Department who was policing in the 70s when New York police "were being killed at the rate of no less than one a month," and Steven Thrasher, a weekly columnist for the Guardian US.
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