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Real-Life Consequences' Tragic Reminder for DA

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 2/1/22

Alvin Bragg was four weeks into his apprenticeship as the man who decides what constitutes justice in Manhattan when Dominique Luzuriaga called him out as a guilty bystander sitting in a pew at St. Patrick's Cathedral as she delivered a eulogy for her husband, Police Officer Jason Rivera, a week after he was murdered while responding to a domestic-violence call in Harlem.

"The system continues to fail us," she told the packed church Jan. 28. "We are not safe anymore, not even the Members of the Service."

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