New York City Patrolmen Rafael Ramos and Wenjin Liu are dead at the hands of an assassin who executed them as they sat in their patrol car eating lunch, working an overtime shift. They were, quite simply, assassinated, a shaken NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Saturday night. The shooter identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley boasted about wanting to murder cops in the hours before he ambushed the officers outside the Tompkins Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 2:45 p.m.