NYPD officer Jonathan Diller should be alive right now. On March 25, he was murdered by Guy Rivera, 34, during a traffic stop in Queens. Diller’s death gained national attention since Rivera had 21 priors, a career criminal, he should have been rotting in jail.
Instead, thanks to Democrat policies that coddle murderers, rapists, violent thugs, and other criminals, he roamed free and killed a New York City police officer. Diller’s murder was preventable, but the city council thought it would be best to let the Big Apple become a cesspool of crime and depravity. It’s insulting that some local leaders who are responsible for the city’s mayhem attended Diller’s funeral, Mayor Eric Adams being one of them. And in her way, Diller’s widow made that clear in her eulogy.
It wasn’t explicit, but Stephanie Diller pulled no punches in saying that policies aimed at protecting police have yet to be enacted and that delay has caused her to raise her son without a father and to live her life without her husband (via NY Post):
A gut-wrenching eulogy by Jonathan Diller's widow, asking the question we all demand an answer to.
— Law Enforcement Legal Defense (@LELDF) March 30, 2024
“That change never came—and now my son will grow up without a father.” #WarOnCops pic.twitter.com/IfbKxUyi3A
The young widow of slain hero cop Jonathan Diller tore into elected officials for allowing crime in NYC to spiral unchecked, as an estimated 10,000 people gathered in Long Island to salute her husband at his funeral Saturday.
“How many more police officers and how many more families have to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them?” Stephanie Diller, 29, tearfully demanded during her devastating eulogy inside St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Massapequa.
Detective Diller was fatally shot Monday during a traffic stop in Far Rockaway, Queens, allegedly by a pair of career criminal with dozens of prior arrests, authorities said.
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Maria Silverman, 50, a Manhattan-based actor married to an NYPD lieutenant, said Diller’s was the eighth funeral she’d attended for an officer killed in the line of duty.
“I’m a lifelong Democrat, but the thing where I really differ from the party line is support for the police,” she said.
“I think the way cops have been treated, 50,000 assaults a year, the maligning of their active service and sacrifice, is galling.
Some politicians were turned away at the wake. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul spent a whopping ten minutes there before she was told, in no uncertain terms, that her presence was not welcomed. Tens of thousands of fellow officers in law enforcement showed up for Diller’s funeral on March 30, where he was posthumously promoted to detective first grade. Former President Donald Trump attended the wake in contrast to Joe Biden, who was only in the city that week to collect $25 million from the city’s liberal elite at a Radio City Music Hall event that was besieged by angry pro-Hamas activists.
