ന്യൂയോര്‍ക്ക്: ബ്രൂക്ക് ലിനിൽ ശനിയാഴ്ച  അക്രമി രണ്ട് പൊലീസുകാരെ വെടിവെച്ചു കൊന്നു. പട്രോള്‍ കാറിനു നേരെ അക്രമി വെടിയുതിര്‍ക്കുകയായിരുന്നു. കാറിനുള്ളില്‍ ഇരിക്കുകയായിരുന്ന പൊലീസുകാര്‍ സംഭവ സ്ഥലത്തുവെച്ചു തന്നെ മരിച്ചു. സംഭവത്തിനു ശേഷം  അക്രമി സ്വയം വെടിവെച്ച് ആത്മഹത്യ ചെയ്തു.

ബാല്‍ട്ടിമൂറില്‍ കാമുകിയെ വെടിവെച്ച ശേഷമാണ് അക്രമി ശനിയാഴ്ച  പൊലീസുകാരെ കൊലപ്പെടുത്തിയത്. വയറില്‍ വെടിയേറ്റ കാമുകി ഗുരുതരവസ്ഥയില്‍ ആശുപത്രിയിലാണ്.
കറുത്തവര്‍ഗക്കാരെ കൊലചെയ്യുന്ന പൊലീസ് നടപടിക്കെതിരെപ്രതിഷേധിച്ചാണ് കൊല നടത്തിയതെന്ന് അക്രമി പൊലീസ് സ്റ്റേഷനില്‍ ഫോണ്‍ വിളിച്ച് അറിയിച്ചിരുന്നു.

Two police officers shot dead in New York

Washington, Dec 21 (IANS) Two New York police officers were shot dead in their patrol car Saturday afternoon by a gunman who claimed that he was angered by two recent racially-charged controversies.

Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead in their car while working overtime in the East Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn, Xinhua quoted New York Police Commissioner William Bratton as saying.

The two officers were rushed to Woodhull Medical Centre, where they were declared dead. Dozens of colleagues joined their families at the hospital in a show of support.

Ramos, father of a 13-year-old boy, was two months away from his 40th birthday. Liu, 32, got married only two months ago.

The two officers were "shot and killed with no warning, no provocation", and they were "quite simply, assassinated", said Bratton.

Citing witness, he said the suspect, identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley, approached the police car without saying a word and, taking a shooter's stance on the passenger side, opened fire into the front passenger-side window with a handgun.

The 28-year-old black man, who had addresses in Georgia and Brooklyn, then fled into the subway and engaged with the police before shooting himself dead, added the commissioner.

Brinsley was a fugitive who had a long record of crimes and had murdered his girlfriend in Baltimore Saturday morning, media reports said.

The tragedy came in the wake of nationwide protests triggered by the decision of a grand jury not to indict the policeman who killed an unarmed black young man named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

The tension was exacerbated later by the non-indictment decision of a New York grand jury in a similar case, which involved the chokehold death of black vendor Eric Garner.

Prior to the attack, Brinsley claimed on social media that he was enraged by the Brown and Garner cases and intended to kill police officers in revenge.

However, Bratton said the linkage between Brinsley and the anti-police protests was under investigation.

US President Barack Obama condemned the shooting in a statement.

"I unconditionally condemn today's murder of two police officers in New York City ... Tonight, I ask people to reject violence and words that harm, and turn to words that heal," said Obama.

Believing City Hall has betrayed them, cops demonstrated their anger Saturday by turning their backs on Mayor de Blasio as he entered a Brooklyn hospital to pay his respects to two murdered officers.

A startling video shows a hallway at Woodhull Hospital filled with officers silently facing away from de Blasio as he walks a blue gantlet.

The demonstration, captured by WPIX11 News, included the presidents of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the Sergeants Benevolent Association.

“Mayor de Blasio, the blood of these two officers is clearly on your hands,” Ed Mullins, president of the sergeants association, said in a statement to his union members Saturday night.

“It is your failed policies and actions that enabled this tragedy to occur,” he said. “I only hope and pray that more of these ambushes and executions do not happen again.”

Patrick Lynch, head of the PBA, echoed Mullins’ anger at the mayor.

“That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall in the office of the mayor,” Lynch said in statement. “When these funerals are over, those responsible will be called on the carpet and held accountable.”

He added that the blame also goes to “those who incited violence on the street under the guise of protest that tried to tear down what NYC police officers did every day.”

“We tried to warn,” Lynch said. “It must not go on. It cannot be tolerated.”