Tens of thousands of mourners filled a New York City church and surrounding streets for the funeral of one of two police officers ambushed by a gunman who said he was avenging the killing of unarmed black men by police.
Rafael Ramos was gunned down along with his partner Wenjian Liu in their patrol car by Ismaaiyl Brinsley.
Relatives and close friends of Ramos recalled him as a man devoted to his church.
The two New York police officers who were shot and killed in their patrol car have been named as Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos by the NYPD commissioner.
"They were quite simply assassinated," William Bratton told reporters at a press conference.
The suspect, who fled to a nearby underground station before shooting himself, has been identified as 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley.
Brinsley also shot and seriously wounded his girlfriend in the city of Baltimore earlier in the day before coming to New York, the commissioner said.
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