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“Daddy, why does everybody hate the police?” NYPD Detective Martin Green’s son posed the question to his dad three days after two police officers were shot and killed in Brooklyn by an emotionally disturbed individual, targeted for their uniform.

New York Police Department officers visit a makeshift memorial in Brooklyn, New York, on Dec. 24, for the officers who were murdered in their police car by an emotionally disturbed man. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times

NEW YORK—“Daddy, why does everybody hate the police?”

NYPD Detective Martin Green’s son posed the question to his dad three days after two police officers were shot and killed in Brooklyn by an emotionally disturbed individual, targeted for their uniform.

“As much as I try to get him to watch SpongeBob, he knows. It’s not hard to miss,” said Green, a detective specialist and auxiliary unit coordinator. “He’s said he wanted to be like Daddy one day, so he’s very concerned.”

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