New Yorkers Observe Moment of Silence for Slain Officers

Mayor de Blasio led New York City in a moment of silence for two slain NYPD officers, with the duo’s somber colleagues simultaneously doffing their hats at the Brooklyn murder scene.

The embattled mayor, after issuing another appeal for unity in the aftermath of the double murder, bowed his head at 2:47 p.m. Tuesday inside City Hall — three days to the minute after the killings, the Daily News  reports.

At the Bedford-Stuyvesant memorial created at the death site, a few dozen police officers and firefighters removed their hats and bowed their heads in honor of slain Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.