Hundreds of police officers today in New York fired their colleague Jason Rivera, an agent of Dominican origin, who died on January 21 in a shooting in the Harlem neighborhood, an event that left three dead, one of them also a police officer. , and which brought the violence in the city and the proliferation of illegal weapons back into the news.
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, on New York’s Fifth Avenue, today hosted the wake for Rivera, who died at the age of 22, an act attended by his parents and his wife, hundreds of police officers who showed up at the scene, a representation of the Consulate Dominican and a group of Dominicans who unfurled a flag of their country in front of the Catholic temple.