There is no justification for the murder of any police officer – as happened in Brooklyn, NY on December 20, 2014. Such an act only becomes an excuse for hateful supporters of oppression to shout louder in their quest to repress others. We should not want a society where, by killing others that we dislike, we all become blind to the direction of the hand of justice.
The killer of the 2 NYPD police officers who we now know were both wonderful individuals was, as we also now know, a mentally ill man with documented evidence of multiple psychiatric hospitalizations who was able to get his hands on a gun. One of the murdered cops was a recently married man whose wife is now a widow even before she experiences the joy of marriage to the love of her life. The other, a recently certified Christian Chaplain was a father of two.