Date uploaded: 2022-02-03 04:59:52
Officers massed by the thousands on Fifth Avenue for New York City's second police funeral in less than a week, saluting Officer Wilbert Mora.
Once again, city leaders stood in St. Patrick's Cathedral to hail a fallen officer's selflessness and try to both reassure and rouse a city worried about violence, and a grieving family pressed officials to crack down on crime. Mora and his police partner, Jason Rivera, were shot Jan. 21 while responding to a call about a domestic argument in a Harlem apartment.
"How many Wilberts and how many Jasons, how many more police officers, will have to lose their lives so that the system changes?" Mora's sister, Karina Mora, asked those gathered. "New York police officers protect us, but who protects them?"
She added her brother was "a man full of dreams. Dreams that today won't come true."
(From the Associated Press)
Mora's "final gift" was to save five lives through organ donation. Click on the link on our bio to learn more about Mora's donations to patients in need of lifesaving organ transplants.
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