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Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, laid a bouquet of white flowers at the Bed-Stuy street memorial where two police officers were executed on Saturday.
De Blasio and McCray bowed their heads in front of the votive candles and flowers for about two minutes Tuesday morning while a pastor prayed with them to honor slain officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
They then placed the flowers on the ground and held hands at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Tompkins Street. The couple then left without speaking to reporters.
A spokesman for the mayor said they were accompanied by the Rev. Michael Durso of Christ Tabernacle Church.
The respect the city’s first couple showed the officers came a day after the mayor blamed the media for divisions now roiling the city over the cop killings and protests over the fatal Eric Garner chokehold case.
On Monday, de Blasio slammed reporters, asking: “Are you going to keep dividing us? What you manage to do is pull up the few who do not represent the majority.”
He was responding to a reporter’s question about protesters, many of whom called for the death of police officers.
Paul Martinka

