Four-year-old Carlos Rivero Jr. stood outside the west gate of City Hall May 25, offering a flyer to anyone who wanted it stating “NYC cops protect our city. It’s time to protect them.”
His father, Carlos Sr., has been a Police Officer for five years—just long enough to be saddled with an inferior disability benefit that he fears would leave him unable as a single parent to support his son if he suffered a career-ending injury. “An officer gets shot in the line of duty, you get like $40 a day,” he explained.
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