On a cold December afternoon in 2014, just five days before Christmas, 40-year-old Rafael Ramos, a male New York City Police Department officer, was sitting in his patrol car with his partner, Wenjian Liu. The two officers were stationed in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn as part of an anti-terrorism drill. Without any warning, a man named Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley approached the passenger side of the vehicle and opened fire with a handgun, striking both officers in the head and
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