Hundreds of protesters took to city streets Tuesday to condemn police brutality in spite of Mayor de Blasio’s plea to suspend demonstrations until after the funerals of two murdered NYPD cops.  The defiant demonstrators carried signs reading “Jail Killer Cops” and marched en masse in Manhattan to demand justice for those who have died recently at the hands of police.  “What we’re doing is exercising our constitutional right,” said one of the protest organizers, Sumumba Sobukwe.  Daily News launches fund to help slain cops' families — FIND OUT HOW TO DONATE  The demonstrations went on despite suggestions from Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, that they inspired suicidal gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsley to murder Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu as revenge for the police-involved killings of Eric Garner on Staten Island and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.  Police union officials have accused de Blasio of having blood on his hands in the officers’ deaths and have slammed him for allowing demonstrations, in which protesters have attacked police, to get out of hand.  As protesters marched Tuesday night, cops wearing black bands over their badges in mourning for Ramos and Liu tried to keep them from clogging streets.  While initially marching on the sidewalk, a group of about 700 protesters poured into the middle of E. 77th St. about 8 p.m., blocking traffic near Madison Ave.  Some protesters hurled insults at cops, chanting “NYPD racists” and “cowards and murderers.”  When the group reached 125th St. in Harlem and joined with protesters who marched down from the Bronx, things turned ugly, as demonstrators chanted, “F--- the police!”  “Mayor de Blasio didn’t start the protest and he doesn’t tell us when to finish,” said Argenys Tavaras, 29.  It was not immediately clear if arrests were made.  On Monday, de Blasio pleaded with protesters to stand down in the wake of Saturday’s ambush slayings of Ramos and Liu in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.  “I think it’s time for everyone to put aside political debates, put aside protests, put aside all the things that we will talk about in due time,” de Blasio said.  But demonstrators vowed to stage another protest on Saturday, the day of Ramos’ funeral, at the Pink Houses project in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, where Akai Gurley, 28, was accidently shot and killed by a cop on Nov. 20.  Robert Gangi, director of the Police Reform Organizing Project, said it was unfair to link a career-criminal lunatic like Brinsley to protests that have generally been peaceful.  “We object to some people painting us with an ‘anti-cop’ brush,” Gangi said Tuesday. “The charge does not apply. We are anti-NYPD practices, such as the quota driven ‘broken windows’ approach to policing which targets low-income people of color.”  City Public Advocate Letitia James took to Twitter to express her displeasure at demonstrators for taking to the streets while the city mourned.  “Reform will never happen if we demonstrate this level of disrespect,” James tweeted. “Highly charged comments only hurt the cause.”  In another tweet, James added, “It is unfortunate that protesters are using such highly charged rhetoric during Holy Week and period of mourning for our officers.”  Protesters gathered in Union Square and outside City Hall Tuesday afternoon before marching in the streets toward Times Square.  A large police presence, with officers on scooters and on foot, tried to keeping protesters from disrupting holiday traffic. Some cops wore riot helmets and face shields.  The demonstrations came hours after de Blasio observed a moment of silence at 2:47 p.m., the exact time Ramos and Liu were shot to death.  “There’s a lot of pain right now that we have to work our way through,” de Blasio said. “We have to keep working to bring police and community together. We have to put the divisions of the past behind us.”
Protesters resumed their march Tuesday to condemn police brutality a day after the mayor asked them to suspend their rallies.