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Another angry sea of blue

Photos by Q. Sakamaki
Photos by Q. Sakamaki

As they had done a week before for Police Officer Rafael Ramos, thousands of police filled the street outside the funeral of his patrol partner, Wenjian Liu, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on Sunday. Estimates put the number at 10,000, less than half that of a week earlier. Liu, 32, and Ramos, 40, were ambushed on Dec. 20 in Bedford-Stuyvesant by a deranged gunman who had tweeted about getting revenge for Eric Garner. Despite a plea by Police Commissioner Bill Bratton not to do so, many cops, including those in top photo — from the city and farther afield, as well as retired officers and others who came in their biker colors — once again turned their backs when Mayor de Blasio was shown speaking on giant screens outside the funeral home. An only child, Liu decided to join the Police Department after the 9/11 attacks. He had married only three months ago. The police flag that draped his coffin was folded into a triangle and given to his young widow, Pei Xia Chen.

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