Photo: Paul Martinka
[From article]
From across the continent, they came to Queens to pay their respects to a hero in blue, brutally gunned down with his partner for no reason other than he wore an NYPD badge.
Clad in dress blues and white gloves on a sunny, cool morning, 23,000 police officers from as far away as San Diego and Canada and from every corner of New York gathered at Christ Tabernacle Church in Glendale, Queens, to bid farewell to Officer Rafael Ramos.
He and his partner, Officer Wenjian Liu, were shot dead Dec. 20 by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a madman bent on avenging the police-custody death of Eric Garner. Brinsley fired four shots point-blank at the cops as they sat in a patrol car in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Accompanying the hearse was a procession that included a record 260 police motorcycles and 93 bagpipers. Ten helicopters conducted a flyover.
Canadian Mounties, Texas state troopers and officers from Mississippi, Ohio, California, Florida and elsewhere saluted their NYPD comrade.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/27/thousands-of-cops-line-up-for-executed-officers-funeral/
23,000 cops mourn slain brother at funeral
By Kevin Fasick, Georgett Roberts and Bill Sanderson
New York Post
December 27, 2014 | 9:17am
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