A foundation set up by the late owner of the Yankees baseball team said it would pay for the education of Ramos’s children, according to the New York Daily News.
Many in the African American community have been angered by recent killings of unarmed black men by police, which have sparked nationwide protests.
In July, Eric Garner, an unarmed father of six, died in New York after police held him in a chokehold while he was being arrested for illegally selling cigarettes.
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, was shot dead by a police officer in August.
Grand jury decisions not to indict the white officers responsible triggered mass protests in New York and other US cities.
Boyce said Brinsley had specifically mentioned Brown and Garner on Instagram and had made other postings of “self-despair or anger” at the state of his life.
Amid a chorus of calls for calm and unity, President Barack Obama “unconditionally” condemned the killings, and urged Americans “to reject violence and words that harm, and turn to words that heal.”
The families of Garner and Brown also urged the public not to commit “any kind of violence directed toward members of law enforcement. It cannot be tolerated. We must work together to bring peace to our communities.”
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