Brooklyn Streets Will Be Named After Slain Police Officers says NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio as the city’s continues to mourn Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.
Brooklyn Streets Will Be Named After Slain Police Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, killed on December 20th by Ismaaiyl Brinsley in what has been called an “assasination.” This is another meaningful gesture of respect and reverence on top of everything the NYPD, city residents, and various companies have done to bid farewell.
So far former mayor Giuliani has engaged donations for a mortgage fund for their families, Major League Baseball proposed paying for the education of the surviving children, respects have been paid at the memorial in front of the 88th precinct in Brooklyn and thousands were in attendance for last week’s funeral.
Mayor de Blasio’s announecment that Brooklyn Streets Will Be Named After Slain Police Officers comes after criticism of what NYPD call a lack of support for them. With growing tension, aggressively public displays of resentment and its impact on #BlackLivesMatter protests, peaceful gestures are needed in New York.
“Our fallen heroes will never be forgotten. Their memory lives on in their families, and in the NYPD family, and now it will live on in the streets of the communities these brave men lived in and protected. This is an expression of our pride in each of these men, and our sadness at their loss.
Legislation will be introduced co-naming Ridgewood Avenue, between Shepherd Avenue and Highland Place in Brooklyn, Detective Rafael Ramos Way. West 6th Street, between Avenue S and Avenue T in Brooklyn, will be co-named Detective Wenjian Liu Way. The blocks are the sites of the detectives’–they were posthumously promoted– respective homes, and were selected in consultation with their families.”
The Mayor and Council Speakers Melissa Mark-Viverito will make it official that the Brooklyn Streets Will Be Named After Slain Police Officers soon after the new year.
RIP, #AllLivesMatter
