The casket was draped in an NYPD flag, and near the church, blue ribbons were tied around tree trunks as a small memorial. Hundreds of fellow officers attended his wake Tuesday.
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The family was not surprised by the overwhelming support.
For five days, police scuba divers, working in pairs, combed 67,000 square feet of riverbed while on their stomachs in search of the handgun believed to have been used in the fatal shooting of a New York City police officer last week.
But they likely originated from sellers in southern states such as Georgia and Virginia that regularly supply firearms traffickers in New York, frustrating law enforcement, Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
Every day New York judges make their decisions while taking public safety into consideration.
“I thought my coming might give a sense of unity in the city; that we can disagree on cases and on policies but that we are united that the senseless and ruthless killing of officers like your son must be denounced”, Sharpton said in the letter. Let’s not let the actions of one individual undo the progress that we’ve made.
We send our prayer’s to the victim’s family. “The city is divided because of people like Sharpton”, NYPD sergeants union head Ed Mullins told the New York Daily News.
“So many in a row”, said Sgt. Brian Theophilus. “Our hearts are heavy”. John Mortimer, pictured above and identified by the NYPD as the officer who found the weapon, recalled being on his stomach when he spotted a “black firearm”. “They were very saddened that such an unholy death came to one of their peers”, Mr. Mojica said. “It affects all of us”.
In New York City, Officer Brian Moore, 25, was killed on May 9 during a patrol.
In a subsequent discussion with the University of Baltimore criminology professor Jeffrey Ian Ross, O’Reilly added: “This Tarantino character, I think he destroyed his career, because anybody hearing that’s going to think: “You know what?” Officers from across the country stood in line for blocks to offer condolences to Holder’s family.
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Pat Cabell, 63, a retired resident of Jamaica, Queens, who lives around the corner from the church, watched the viewing procession and cried. “He was only 33 years old. It’s just, I’m a mother and I just felt I had to be here”.
