Mayor De Blasio And NYPD Commissioner Bratton Speak To Press On Police Shootings

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 22: New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton (R) and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speak at a press conference regarding two police officers who were killed on Saturday on December 22, 2014 in New York City. Tensions between the Mayor and the New York Police Department (NYPD) have been high after de Blasio sympathized with protesters who took to the streets after grand juries declined to charge white officers in the killings of unarmed black males. Police commissioner Bill Bratton urged to ease those strains in the wake of the shooting of NYPD officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, of the 84th Precinct who were killed execution style on December 20 as they sat in their marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)