Thousands collect to farewell NYPD officer killed in Midtown mass capturing | EUROtoday

Thousands gathered to say farewell to the New York City Police Department officer who was killed in Monday’s mass capturing in Midtown.

The funeral for 36-year-old Didarul Islam happened on the Parkchester Jame Masjid, positioned on a residential road within the officer’s neighborhood within the Bronx, three days after he was killed within the deadliest capturing within the metropolis in a quarter-century, The New York Times famous.

The gunman entered the workplace constructing at 345 Park Avenue with an assault style-rifle and began to discharge the weapon. He killed Islam and two others earlier than heading to the thirty third flooring, the place he killed a fourth particular person, earlier than he died by suicide.

Police say the shooter, Shane Tamura, 27, had made his approach to New York from his Nevada house, the place he was set on focusing on the headquarters of the National Football League.

Hundreds of officers from as many as 54 of the 77 precincts within the metropolis, in addition to from states and counties within the surrounding space, attended the funeral.

The streets across the mosque have been empty of vehicles for the proceedings, with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch saying that “Didarul Islam came to this country as an immigrant with no guarantees, only the hope that hard work, that humility, and that purpose might lead him somewhere meaningful. And it did.”

The rituals went on for near 4 hours, with separate viewings for women and men. Floral wreaths lined the room, with the casket lined with the Police Department’s normal in inexperienced, white, and blue.

Mayor Eric Adams, himself a former NYPD officer, spoke on the funeral whereas the winner of the Democratic mayoral main, Zohran Mamdani, sat with the household, The Nyt famous.

Islam got here to New York City from Bangladesh when he was 20 years outdated, dwelling in a small home alongside along with his dad and mom, his younger sons, and his pregnant spouse.

In a eulogy learn on his spouse’s behalf, she wrote that Islam had “lived to help others” and that “He gave his life protecting them. Though my heart is broken, I find comfort knowing that his sacrifice might have saved others.”

Islam, who served within the division for 3 and a half years, joined the company after spending two years as a security agent in metropolis colleges. Even as an officer, he spent his time without work as a safety guard.

Islam labored the Dominican Day Parade within the Bronx on Sunday earlier than choosing up an extra shift on Monday at 345 Park Avenue.

“He stepped into a new land and chose to become part of its promise, to believe in its dream. And he did believe in the American dream, not as something handed down but as something built with your own hands,” stated Tisch. “He may not be here to see that dream fulfilled, but his sons will surely grow up with its foundation beneath their feet.”

Friends and colleagues stated Islam was a loyal Muslim. Imam Dr. Zakir Ahmed of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York stated throughout remarks that Islam, “lived at a time when people like him are too often feared, vilified and made to feel like outsiders.”

“We cannot honor Officer Islam today while ignoring the daily pain endured by his community — being told to go back where you came from, being watched more closely, judged more harshly and loved less fully,” Imam Ahmed added, in accordance with The Nyt.

“To our city, our nation, you cannot ask us to serve and then silence us,” he stated.

“You cannot take our sacrifice and ignore our suffering.”