Mayor Eric Adams sought to comfort a grieving Big Apple, a grieving police force and a grieving family Friday in an emotion-riven eulogy for slain Officer Jason Rivera at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
“It takes courage to put on a uniform and a badge, to answer the call, to serve the cause of justice in every sense of the word,” the mayor told the gathered mourners. “This is a biblical moment. Scripture states, ‘Greater love have no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’
“That is what Jason did,” Adams said. “He gave his life defending his fellow New Yorkers. That
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