Even if protesters say they will not be quieted, the heads of the city’s police unions had agreed to suspend any lobbying efforts tied to the protests until after both officers are buried, Bratton said.
Investigators said a video on Brinsley’s cell phone showed him filming a protest against excessive police force at New York’s Union Square Park.
Rejecting the unions’ arguments, de Blasio said the attack should not be tied to the recent protests, which in New York have been largely peaceful. But some protesters said the mayor sent the opposite message by using Brinsley’s actions as a reason to temporarily stop protests.
The grand juries that considered the killings of Brown and Garner decided the police officers involved broke no laws. On Monday, a Milwaukee prosecutor said a police officer there would not be charged for the fatal shooting of a black man in April.
The officer in the Milwaukee shooting, who was white, was fired in October for failing to follow police procedure. As in the Garner and Brown cases, the U.S. Justice Department is now considering whether civil rights laws were broken in that case.
(Additional reporting by Sebastien Malo in New York, Bill Trott, Susan Heavey and Ian Simpson in Washington and Richard Weizel in Milford, Connecticut; Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Howard Goller, Grant McCool and Ken Wills)
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