Sentences with phrase «largest police funeral»
Buffalo Police Officer Craig E. Lehner's funeral Wednesday in KeyBank Center may be the largest police funeral in Western New York history.
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The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.
The city's largest police union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, circulated a petition a week before the officers were killed inviting members to request the mayor and the speaker stay away from their funerals if they were killed in the line of duty.
This means that if the police raid your home with a search warrant for pot and shoot you dead, even if your family can show that the shooting was unlawful, the police would be liable only for something like funeral expenses if they could show that «more likely than not,» you had sold some pot, or at some point possessed a large enough quantity of the drug to merit a felony charge.