NYPD Marks 40th Anniversary Of Manhattan Shooting That Killed Two Officers
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The New York City Police Department on Friday remembered two patrolmen who were killed in the line of duty four decades ago.
Police, friends and family observed the 40th anniversary of the shootings of Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie.
They gathered for a ceremony outside the officers' Manhattan precinct house, where there are now plaques honoring them.
They were shot in the back at close range while patrolling near Tompkins Square Park.
The Black Liberation Army, an offshoot of the Black Panthers, took credit for the assassinations.
Commissioner Ray Kelly was a sergeant at the time of the shootings and remembers the day vividly.
"I just felt compelled to come here, and I did come down to the scene, and it was sort of eerily quiet," said Kelly.
"Being here to me, is sort of the greatest honor I could give my brother," said Joseph Foster, Gregory’s brother.
Foster and Laurie were 22 and 23 at the time of their deaths.