Governor Cuomo: 'Let's Bring The Temperature Down'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 22, 2014

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reacts to this weekend's events, the "revenge killing" of two NYPD officers while they were sitting in a marked police car.

Gov. Cuomo was with the Ramos family yesterday. "I can't begin to describe the pain that they're feeling."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 22, 2014

.@NYGovCuomo: My message today to leaders: "It is time for a societal deep breath. We need a cooling-off period." https://t.co/zNiVz08ni6
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 22, 2014

.@NYGovCuomo tells @BrianLehrer he wants New Yorkers to "join me in bringing a period of calm during this week, this holy week." @WNYC
— Karen Rouse (@rouse_karen) December 22, 2014

.@NYGovCuomo responding to Pat Lynch's statement of "blood on the hands starts at City Hall": "I don't want to get into who is to blame."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 22, 2014

"I think Mayor de Blasio is doing the best he can under very difficult circumstances to hear all sides of the matter." @NYGovCuomo
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 22, 2014

"The mayor has my full support. The union leaders have my full support," @NYGovCuomo tells @BrianLehrer. Says he won't point fingers. @WNYC
— Karen Rouse (@rouse_karen) December 22, 2014

.@NYGovCuomo on @brianlehrer evokes racial tensions of Howard Beach & Crown Heights in talking about NYPD killings, Garner case, et al.
— NYDN Daily Politics (@DNDailyPolitics) December 22, 2014

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