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          Thousands of Police Expected at Service for Slain NY Officer

   by VOA News

   Thousands of police officers and mourners from around the United States
   are expected to attend a funeral Sunday in New York for Wenjian Liu, a
   policeman shot to death last month in a targeted attack.

   Twenty-eight-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley killed Liu and his partner,
   Officer Rafael Ramos, in December as they sat in their patrol car.
   Brinsley then shot himself in a nearby subway station.

   Brinsley had earlier posted anti-police and anti-government messages on
   social media and alluded to taking revenge for the deaths of Michael
   Brown and Eric Garner, both unarmed black men who died at the hands of
   white police officers in 2014.

   Brinsley was black, the officers he killed were Asian and Hispanic.

   A service for Ramos in December drew tens of thousands of mourners.

   The New York shootings happened at a time of increased tension in the
   United States following the decisions by grand juries not to indict the
   police officers in the Brown and Garner cases.

   U.N special rapporteur on minority issues Rita Izsak has called for a
   review of policing in the United States.

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