NYC gives final salute to slain NYPD officer

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Thousands of police officers lined the pews Friday at St. Patrick's Cathedral to honour fallen Officer Jason Rivera, who was gunned down with his partner last week in an ambush that left the New York Police Department in mourning and the city on edge.

Mayor Eric Adams, himself a retired police captain, told those gathered that he saw an echo of himself in the slain officer who had joined a department he had seen as flawed in hopes of improving it.

"The system continues to fail us. We are not safe anymore. Not even the members of the service," Rivera's wife, Dominique Luzuriaga, said through tears as she recalled her horror at seeing a cellphone alert about two officers being shot in Harlem and then worriedly texting and calling the former elementary school classmate she married just this past October.

"Jason saw the need and had the desire to foster a positive relationship between police and his community," said Inspector Amir Yakatally, the commanding officer of Rivera's and Mora's precinct. "He was what we all want in a cop." Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan presided over Rivera's service, held in Spanish and English in recognition of the first-generation New Yorker's Dominican heritage.

 

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