Now, there are buckets of blood on the hands of any cop who enforces the blue line silence.

The cop killer is a complete asshole. He was obviously crazy and deranged and deserved to die himself. No one disagrees I'm sure. Let's hope things calm down, people can come to the table and talk about reforms and cooler heads prevail.

Granted, that's clearly not the case here, but you made your statement in the absolute.

Jesus suggested we do no violence even to those who intend violence against us. Interesting concept.

... but there are times when, the only way to prevent yourself or someone else from being killed, is to kill the person who is threatening to do harm.

it stinks real bad, I just don't want to believe that New York cops will go this low just to take away pressure from public outcry about their over aggressive behavior toward blacks in particular or ethnic minorities in this country.

This type of action is what pisses me off, and they make it obvious by instantly blaming demonstrators for something they ffooking staged. What law abiding citizen fearful of police brutality will attack two policeman because they want to make a point? unless the culprits were being directed by shady players who wants the protest of police brutality go away, I hope this does not hold back the nationwide demonstration which have been successful in large parts.

The killer had shot his girlfriend and apparently wanted to go out with a bang.

I don't think these killings will impact peaceful protesters, but on the other hand, it is hardly going to make cops less trigger-happy.

And possibly violence against him. He is still a cop, so he should be suspended and have his badge and gun removed. It's no different than the head of the military telling troops to turn their backs n the president. It's dangerous.,

lashing out in grief and anger are not the traits of an effective leader

could have triggered the attack on her.

And the hatred toward police in the past few weeks easily could have led to this killing. And perhaps even more.

Don't all the flamers realize how easy it is to trigger a killing by someone? So he is lunatic. So what. All the protests and all the shouting in these days of instant messaging are a trigger.

I might have joined in protests, but screams of "PIGS" and grouping all police officers with some very contemptible ones is not cool IMHO.
Until we are all saints, we need officers of the law to enforce things in a reasonable way. What is needed is better screening and training.

Law enforcement is not innocent in all of this. And to turn around play the victim is shameful. It's not the protesters, nor what the President or what the Mayor of NY said- that triggered this.

The police triggered this. They triggered it by making it all too common place to kill innocent civilians across the country.