New York prayer vigil for Rafael Ramos

Thousands of people rendered homage friday in a New York church at one of the two police officers killed last weekend.
Vice President Joe Biden, the mayor of New York Bill de Blasio, the head of the police Will Braton and thousands of police from all United States were expected at the funeral of Rafael Ramos on saturday, in the Protestant church Christ Tabernacle in Queens. Giant screens were installed outside the church for those who can not enter.
Rafael Ramos, 40, was shot dead on december 20, with his colleague Wenjian Liu in their company car parked in a public housing Brooklyn. They hadn't had time to see their attacker, a black mental patient of 28, Ismaaiyl Brinsley who then committed suicide on a subway platform. He had previously explained on Instagram want to avenge the death of two black killed this summer by police who have escaped prosecution. The double murder shocked New York and his 35,000 police officers.
Friday, a serious crowd, which was lying on the line several blocks, has long waited to bow to the coffin of Rafael Ramos. The coffin, covered with a flag green, white and blue of the NYPD, was carried into the church early in the afternoon, supported by six policemen in uniform. Dozens of others had then made him a guard of honor.
Married and father of two son, Rafael Ramos had entered the police in 2012, and was about to become a chaplain. "It was a being deeply religious man" friday said one of the pastors of the church, Ralph Castillo. "He will be sorely missed". 
This double murder has exacerbated tensions between the democratic mayor of New York and his police. Some police officers accused of having blood on their hands, saying it had not sufficiently supported and had been too kind to demonstrators in New York for weeks denouncing the deaths of Michael Brown (Ferguson, Missouri) and Eric Warner in New York this summer. The two police officers involved in the death of these young blacks were not prosecuted, which caused demonstrations in several US cities.
Bill de Blasio had requested a truce on both sides until the funeral, but friday, a small plane flew over the Hudson in New York, carrying a banner saying "de Blasio we have you turned your back ". 
This manifestation of hostility was the work of a group of police officers (active and retirees) denouncing the "inflammatory rhetoric" of the mayor, according to John Gardillo, a former police officer. 
The funeral of the second policeman killed, whose part of the family has to come from China, weren't yet finalized.

Source : AFP