A group of protesters started yelling at police officers in New York standing near a makeshift memorial Monday for murdered NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, CNN reported.
CNN correspondent Sara Ganim said that the many people who had arrived to view the memorial were initially paying their respects to the officers for the loss of their fallen friends.
But she added "I do, just in full disclosure, want to say that in the last couple of minutes, for the first time today, we’ve seen protesters come out here and start yelling at groups of police who are mourning the slain police officers."
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Ganim went on, "It’s just a few of them … and they’re quite frankly yelling at a group of police officers who are standing here silently, just looking at the memorial of candles and flowers and posters, and they’re yelling similar rhetoric that we’ve been hearing over the last couple of weeks related to the chokehold death of Eric Garner and the shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri."
Ramos and Liu were ambushed Saturday afternoon in their police cruiser by 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who vowed in an Instagram post that he would put "wings on pigs." He shot the two officers, killing them both, before killing himself as other police gave chase.
Protests nationwide erupted after grand juries declined to charge officers following Garner's death in New York and the shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old Brown in Ferguson.
New York Mayor
Bill de Blasio has pleaded for a pause in the protests amid a widening rift with NYPD officers who accuse him of creating a climate of mistrust that contributed to the execution of two officers.
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