“My brother had a lot of fears. My brother was afraid of heights, he was afraid of rats, he was afraid of dogs,” said deceased NYPD Jason Rivera's older brother Jeffrey. “But he was not afraid to die, to wear that uniform. He was not afraid to die.”
Mayor Eric Adams comforts family members during Officer Jason Rivera's funeral Friday.Thousands of police officers along with friends and family members of deceased Police Officer Jason Rivera gathered at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan Friday morning, remembering him as a kind officer with a lifelong passion for policing, who had a bright career in law enforcement ahead of him.last Friday.
“My brother had a lot of fears. My brother was afraid of heights, he was afraid of rats, he was afraid of dogs,” Rivera said. “But he was not afraid to die, to wear that uniform. He was not afraid to die.”. Jeffrey Rivera described how the two worked together at a pharmacy growing up, and would deliver prescriptions to elderly patients on bicycles all over the area; to Marble Hill, Fordham and Washington Heights.
Later that night, when she heard two officers had been shot in Harlem, she called and texted her husband but got no response. She was summoned to the hospital shortly after and recalled rushing in to see her husband, wrapped up in sheets, lifeless.
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