New York gives final salute to slain NYPD officer

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police officers have given a final salute to a rookie colleague gunned down with his partner a week ago. Officer Jason Rivera’s funeral was held Friday morning at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Mayor Eric Adams, who is a retired police captain, says he sees an echo of himself in the slain officer who had joined a department he had seen as flawed in hopes of improving it. At 22 years old, Rivera was recently married and barely into his second year on the force. He and Officer Wilbert Mora were fatally wounded when a gunman ambushed them in an apartment as they responded to a family dispute.