The man who murdered two New York City police officers posted deadly internet threats hours before he ambushed them in their patrol car, it has emerged.
William Bratton said the officers, Liu Wenjin and Raphael Ramos, were ‘quite simply assassinated’, shot in the head without warning, after the gunman approached the passenger window of a marked police car in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood and opened fire.
The suspect, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, then ran inside a Brooklyn underground station, where he killed himself.
Mr Bratton said Brinsley shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend earlier in Baltimore and made posts from her Instagram account. ‘This may be my final post,’ said one that included an image of a silver handgun.
He also posted about shooting two ‘pigs’ in retaliation for the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who was stopped by police on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes and put in a chokehold. Brinsley was black and the officers were Asian and Hispanic, police said.
‘I’m putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours, let’s take 2 of theirs,’ Brinsley posted, using the hashtags Shootthepolice RIPErivGardner (sic) RIPMikeBrown.
The shooting happened hours later, around the time that Mr Bratton said New York police were receiving a warning fax from Baltimore authorities.
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