Good speeches from Biden, Cuomo and Bratton, very conscious and kind to the family.
Via NY Post:
From across the continent, they came to Queens to pay their respects to a hero in blue, brutally gunned down with his partner for no reason other than he wore an NYPD badge.
Clad in dress blues and white gloves in the bright light of a sunny, cool Saturday morning, 23,000 police officers from San Diego to Canada, and every corner of New York, gathered at Christ Tabernacle Church in Glendale to pay their final respects to Officer Rafael Ramos.
Ramos and Officer Wenjian Liu were shot dead last Saturday by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a madman bent on avenging the chokehold death[ed.-didn’t die from a chokehold, but from a heart attack in which compression played a factor] of Eric Garner in police custody. Brinsley blasted four shots point-blank at the officers as they sat in a patrol car in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Vice President Joe Biden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton eulogized the fallen officer, a man beloved as a doting dad and devout Christian.
“When an assassin’s bullet targeted two officers, it targeted this city and it touched the soul of an entire nation,” Biden said.
Outside the church, the sea of blue stood five rows deep, filling the streets several blocks in every direction — the largest gathering ever for an NYPD funeral, officials said.