Via News Day:
Police officers traveled from as far as New Orleans and Los Angeles to pay respects Saturday to Wenjian Liu, one of two NYPD officers slain Dec. 20 by a cop-hating gunman.
As snow began to fall, long lines of mourners carrying umbrellas stretched around the block from Ralph Aievoli & Son, a funeral home in Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights neighborhood where Liu’s wake began at 1 p.m.
A few minutes earlier, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton arrived. Mayor Bill de Blasio joined him there at 1:12 p.m., and they entered the funeral home together.
A private funeral will follow on Sunday, an NYPD spokesman said.
Liu, 32, a seven-year veteran of the force, was posthumously promoted to detective. His family arrived at the funeral home in black vans hours before the start of the wake, shortly after two buses carried about 100 officers from his precinct, the 84th. Other officers from around the country said they flew in the night before.