AP / Yahoo News: Mayor, VP to speak at slain NYPD officer's funeral [The Multicultural Marxist - Predatory Capitalist official narrative seems to be that de Blasio "stood firmly behind" the NYPD--after some of them die, by calling for a pause in cop-threatening demonstrations?--and that Black and other political terrorists are simply "troubled" young people, as if they just should have talked to their high school guidance counselor after gym class. --tma]

Mayor, VP to speak at slain NYPD officer's funeral



NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of people were expected to attend the funeral of a New York City police officer shot to death along with his partner one week ago in a brazen daylight ambush that shook the city and put an end to large-scale local protests criticizing police following a series of high-profile deaths in police custody.

Vice President Joe Biden and Mayor Bill de Blasio were expected to speak Saturday at the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos, who was described the day before during an eight-hour wake attended by thousands of police officers from New York and across the country as a selfless, caring and compassionate man.

"What happened to my father was a tragedy," Ramos' son, Justin Ramos, said in a tearful eulogy viewed by hundreds of officers in the street who watched oan giant television screens outside the crowded Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens. "But his death will not be in vain."

Ramos, a 40-year-old married father of two, was studying to become a pastor and kept Bible study books in his locker, his commanding officer said.

Funeral plans for his partner, Officer Wenjian Liu, have yet to be announced.

The officers were killed Dec. 20 while sitting in their patrol car on a Brooklyn street. Investigators have said the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, was troubled and had shot and wounded an ex-girlfriend in Baltimore earlier that day. ...

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