Emotional scenes in New York as police mourn two of their own

New York is a city in mourning following the violent shooting deaths of two police officers in Brooklyn on Saturday.

Two NYPD officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were shot in their patrol car in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon.

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Image: Mark Lennihan/Associated Press

In a statement released by the White House late Saturday night, U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the killings, and urged people to remain peaceful in the wake of the attack. Obama is currently on vacation in Hawaii for the holidays. Read more...

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