More than 20,000 cops—significant numbers of them from other states—turned out Dec. 27 as the city paid its final respects to Rafael Ramos, the NYPD officer whom Police Commissioner William J. Bratton described as having “represented the best of our values” before he and Wenjian Liu were murdered by a crazed gunman outside a Brooklyn housing project seven days earlier.
On a sunny, unseasonably warm morning, officers packed into Christ Tabernacle Church in Glendale, Queens and filled the streets covering several blocks outside to which the proceedings were broadcast on large projection screens. Officer Ramos was lauded by Vice President Joe Biden, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio as a caring officer and family man who brought his spirituality—he was studying to be a chaplain—to the way he did his job.
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