Sentences with phrase «police funerals»
"Police funerals" refers to ceremonies held to honor and remember police officers who have died while serving their communities. Full definition
Mr. Bratton attended his first police funeral 44 years ago in Boston, a city then similarly overtaken by anger.
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Cardinal Dolan has spoken out about the ongoing tensions in the city before, penning an editorial in the Daily News urging unity and decrying both protesters using anti-police rhetoric and police unions who called on the mayor not to attend police funerals just days before these deaths.
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.
Buffalo Police Officer Craig E. Lehner's funeral Wednesday in KeyBank Center may be the largest police funeral in Western New York history.
And the NYPD has kept crime at record lows — though he courted doom his first year as his embrace of anti-cop activists yielded the spectacle of hundreds of officers turning their backs to him at police funerals.
Authorities today announced the arrest of Asia Siddiqui and Noelle Velentzas, who allegedly said they wanted to be «real bad bitches» and considered targeting police funerals.
If the NYPD saw fit to honor Mohammed Hamdani with a police funeral that included full honors and a badge on the 1st anniversary of 9/11, then he should be included with the list of the First Responders.
At the same time, the NYPD calls Hamdani a hero, having honored him in 2002 with a police funeral that included full honors from New York's mayor and police commissioner.