Grief over Slain NYPD Cop Mixes with Anger as Officers Blame ‘Powers That Be’ for Emboldening Criminals

POLITICS & POLICY
Police officers from departments across the country stand in silence outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City to honor Jason Rivera, January 28, 2022. (Caroline Downey)

The funeral ceremony commemorating the line-of-duty death of New York police officer Jason Rivera drew thousands of uniformed officers from across the country to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on Friday.

Just over a year out of the police academy, Rivera, 22, and his 27-year-old partner Wilbert Mora, whose funeral is next week, were gunned down in a Harlem apartment last weekend while responding to a domestic disturbance call. The killer, Lashawn McNeil, had a violent criminal record prior to the shooting, including a 2003 felony narcotics conviction and multiple prior arrests for unlawful possession of a weapon, assaulting a police

(Caroline Downey)

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