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The officers were
in an unmarked car at about 10 p.m. at the Annie Coleman housing
projects, known as "The Rockies," when the men walked up to the
vehicle and opened fire, the Miami Herald newspaper reported.
At least one of the officers fired back, John Rivera, president
of the Miami-Dade police union, said, and both survived the
attack in the city's Brownsville district.
"They were outnumbered and outgunned. God was watching over them
tonight," Rivera told the newspaper.
The unidentified officers were in stable condition at a local
hospital, Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez told
journalists.
"Our officers are out there every night risking their lives
trying to bring safety to the community and what you saw today
was an ambush-style attack on our police officers," Perez said.
One of the officers was shot in the leg and the other was grazed
by a bullet, the Herald reported.
Other police near the scene rushed the officers to hospital in
the back of a pick-up truck, the newspaper reported. The two
wounded men are part of a homicide task force-gang unit, it
added.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Andrew
Heavens)
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