At NYT, "Thousands Honor N.Y.P.D. Officer Brian Moore in a Grimly Familiar Ritual":
Brian Moore was born blue.More.
His father was police. His uncle and his cousins were police.
On Friday, nearly a week after he was fatally shot while on patrol in Queens, Officer Moore was laid to rest surrounded by a sea of blue.
As the funeral procession made its way through the streets of Seaford, N.Y., on Long Island, with uniformed officers escorting the hearse carrying Officer Moore’s body, thousands of men and women lined the streets in silence.
They offered a final salute to one of their own.
When Officer Moore joined the New York Police Department five years ago, it was like he was signing up for the family business. At his funeral, that family grew by tens of thousands at what was expected to be one of the largest police funerals in the New York City area in decades.
“We are united today as a family,” Msgr. Robert J. Romano, the Police Department’s chaplain, said during the homily. “A family of blood. A family of blue and the American family.”
Monsignor Romano said that the hundreds in the church, the thousands of people outside and millions of people around the country were mourning alongside those closest to Officer Moore...
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