# Cops ambushed and shot in Brooklyn **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 20, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-ambushed-and-shot-in-brooklyn/707771 "2014-12-20T21:20:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-ambushed-and-shot-in-brooklyn/707771/1 "2014-12-20T21:20:35Z")
I hope its not related to the Brooklyn “I Can’t Breath” protests against cops. [Several cops have been punched and attacked in the last couple weeks.](http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/20/justice/new-york-protests-arrests/) Doesn’t help that their new mayor threw all the police under the bus. Still early in the investigation. This may just be a wacko. > **[Two NYPD officers ‘assassinated’ while sitting in patrol car in Brooklyn by...](https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/12/21/two-nypd-officers-assassinated-while-sitting-in-patrol-car-in-brooklyn-by-gunman-who-boasted-on-instagram-about-revenge-killing-cops-graphic-images/)** > > Two NYPD cops were executed Saturday after a career criminal drove from Baltimore to Brooklyn to kill police officers in a twisted bid to avenge the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. “… > [@](#): > > Two NYPD cops were shot when a suspect ambushed them as they sat in a patrol car in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, police sources and witnesses said. > > The shooting took place outside of the Tompkins Houses, near Myrtle Ave. and Tompkins Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, about 3 p.m., cop sources said. > > “The perp came out of the houses, walked up behind the car and lit them up,” a high-ranking police official told the Daily News. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-ambushed-and-shot-in-brooklyn/707771)._