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NEW YORK — A school in Brooklyn was renamed Friday after NYPD Det. Rafael Ramos, who worked to keep the community safe before he was killed a decade ago.

P.S. 54 in Brooklyn is now the Detective Rafael Ramos School, a Magnet School of Environmental Science, Technology and Community Wellness. The renaming comes nearly 10 years after the 2014 murders of then-Officer Ramos and his patrol partner, Officer Wenjian Liu while on duty in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Ceremony held for renaming of Detective Rafael Ramos School in Bedford-Stuyvesant

The slain detective's widow, Maritza Ramos, says the ceremony made her emotional.

"There's a school that's going to live on way past all of us, and his legacy will continue forever. But also sad and missing him. So it's a mix of emotions. But this is an amazing day, amazing event. And we've been looking forward to this," she told CBS News New York's Hannah Kliger.

A police dog, called "Ralfie," was also named in his honor. The explosive detection K-9 works in the counterterrorism unit.

"He could sniff out, like, 11 different types of explosives. So, like, on a day-to-day functioning, we'll do any large events in the city," said Officer David Frino, who is partnered with Ralfie.

After the renaming, the Detective Rafael Ramos Foundation handed out about 300 bookbags stuffed with toys as part of an effort to continue to engage young people in the community.

Since Ramos' death, the NYPD and Detective Rafael Ramos Foundation have been working to build bridges.

"Rafael Ramos is a good friend of mine. And to culminate everything that has happened and has transpired throughout the years, we started off doing backpacks eight and a half years ago right in this neighborhood," said Jose Falero, Vice President and Co-Founder of the Detective Rafael Ramos Foundation.

Fallen NYPD officers leave lasting impact on communities

Ramos once also worked as a school safety officer on Staten Island and inspired others to follow in h

A longtime NYPD cop and training sergeant who spent his entire career in Brooklyn remembered his fallen brothers in blue – including slain Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu – as he retired from the force after 30 years.

Sgt. Thomas Brogan walked out of the 84th Precinct – his most recent home – on Friday afternoon, and reminisced on all the moments that shaped his career, including the tragic ones. 

“Sometimes the memories are so real, it feels like I have to brush them away from my face,” Brogan said. “Especially the ones of the people who are no longer with us….even though I continuously think of them.”

During the walkout, Brogan reiterated a year-end toast members of the NYPD Emerald Society Pipes and Drums Band recite annually: 

“To all those that have gone before us.” 

He listed the names of several NYPD officers assigned to the 84th Precinct who died during his 20-year tenure there.

Among them were Ramos and Liu, who were gunned down assassination-style in 2014 by a repeat offender. 

Liu, 32, a newlywed of only two months, had seven years on the force; Ramos, 40, dad to two sons, had two years on the job.

Brogan also honored Officer Alain Schaberger, who was shoved to his death off a brownstone stoop by a man he was attempting to arrest in connection to a domestic offense on March 13, 2011. 

Brogan joined the NYPD in 1994 and served 10 years in the 70th Precinct as a police officer. 

He was promoted to sergeant in 2004 and served the next 20 years in the 84th Precinct.  

He remained there through the end of his career, serving as a training sergeant for young officers, a role in which he took immense pride. 

“I was on patrol for 21 years. I enjoyed being on the street –  that’s why I took this job,”  Brogan said. “Working with all the different men and women in this department, I met so many fri

Murders of two police officers in New York City

On December 20, 2014, Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley shot and killed Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu — two on-duty New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers — in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Brinsley then fled into the New York City Subway, where he killed himself. Earlier in the day, before he killed Ramos and Liu, Brinsley had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend Shaneka Thompson in Baltimore after initially pointing the gun at his own head.

Background and events

The shooting occurred just weeks after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was responsible for the death of Eric Garner on July 17, 2014. The grand jury's decision resulted in widespread protests in New York City and across the nation against police brutality and the lack of accountability for it. The protests also coincided with widespread protests in response to a grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9. Brinsley's motive to kill the NYPD officers was motivated by outrage over the two deaths.

Before Brinsley arrived in Brooklyn by bus, he shot and seriously wounded his 29-year-old ex-girlfriend, Shaneka Nicole Thompson, in the Baltimore suburb of Owings Mills, Maryland, on Saturday morning. The second shooting occurred at Myrtle Avenue and Tompkins Avenue, a busy intersection in Brooklyn near the Tompkins Houses. Brinsley approached the passenger window of an NYPD patrol car occupied by Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjian Liu, 32, of Brooklyn's 84th Precinct. He then fired a semiautomatic handgun four times through the open window, striking Ramos and Liu in the head and upper body, killing both officers instantly. Two Con Ed workers who witne