📸: Dominique Rivera, wife of slain NYPD Officer Jason Rivera, clutches the flag from his casket while attending his funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Rivera and his partner were both killed after responding to a domestic violence call.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan blesses the casket of NYPD Officer Jason Rivera during Rivera's funeral service, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Rivera and his partner, Officer Wilbert Mora, were fatally wounded when a gunman ambushed them in an apartment as they responded to a family dispute last week.
Mayor Eric Adams, himself a retired NYPD captain, said he saw an echo of himself in the slain officer who joined a department he hoped he could make better. Through tears, Rivera’s wife, Dominique Luzuriaga, recalled the horror of seeing cellphone alerts about two officers being shot in Harlem. Her worries grew as she texted and called the former elementary school classmate she married this past October. She got no answer until the call that summoned her to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Bragg, who had no involvement with the officers' killer, responded in a statement that he was grieving and praying for the slain officers and will “vigorously prosecute cases of violence against police.” Both Mora and Rivera — who was posthumously promoted to detective on Friday — grew up in the city’s ethnic enclaves and had hoped to help the department build bridges with the community.
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