Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_01Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_01Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A wall referring to the shooting of Michael Brown on a doorway of a building along Myrtle Avenue, the route the killer took toy get the subway after shooting the two officers. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_02Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_02Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A makeshift memorial on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Thompkins Avenue where two members of the NYPD were shot and killed Saturday. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_03Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_03Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: United States Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Charles Johnson stands in front of a makeshift memorial for the two officers who were shot and killed Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_05Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_05Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: Hundreds of people attended a vigil for the two officers that were shot and killed Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_05Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_05Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: Police officers stood on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Thompkins Avenue, the scene where two officers were shot and killed Saturday afternoon while sitting in their patrol car. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_06Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_06Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A small makeshift memorial stood below a Thomkins Houses sign across the street from where the two officers were shot and killed Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_07Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_07Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A stuffed lay in a hole in the pavement as if dead in the street and partially buried a block away from where the shooting death of two officers by a mentally ill man. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests_08& BurialsTale of Two Cities: Protests_08& BurialsBrooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A mother and her child inside a restaurant across the street from where two officers were shot to death Saturday afternoon in a neighborhood in Brooklyn that will now be remembered for this act of violence. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_09Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_09Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A playground with no children inside the Thompkins Houses in Brooklyn. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_10Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_10Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: Deacon McDuffie stopped to pray at the site where two police officers were shot and killed Saturday afternoon. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_11Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_11Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A man stopped to place an item at a memorial at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Thompkins Avenue, the scene where two officers were shot and killed Saturday afternoon while sitting in their patrol car. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_12Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_12Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A wall referring to the shooting of Michael Brown on a doorway of a building along Myrtle Avenue, the route the killer took to get to the subway after shooting the two officers. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_13Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_13Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A police officer walks past a memorial and bunting at the 84th Precinct where the two police officers who were shot and killed Saturday afternoon were assigned. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_14Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_14Brooklyn, New York, November 29, 2006: Nicholas Heyward holds a toy rifle which was in the hands of his son when police shot him dead in the stairwell of his apartment complex in Brooklyn in 1994. The picture of Nicholas Heyward Jr was taken when he was 13 years old, the year he was killed. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_15Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_15Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: A makeshift memorial outside the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn where the two members of the NYPD who were shot and killed Saturday afternoon were assigned. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_16Tale of Two Cities: Protests & Burials_16Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 21, 2014: Mothers and family members who have lost loved ones to NYPD brutality over the last two decades speak to a a small crowd about their experience at Riverside Church in Manhattan Saturday afternoon.
A photograph of recent protests was projected on a wall of the church while the family members spoke about their experiences. Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Read the full story
