Watching the heartbroken eulogy of a police officers widow is painful under any circumstances. But the pain of watching the widow of Officer Jason Rivera was mixed with a sense of awe and admiration. Dominique Luzuriaga managed to express not only immeasurable grief, but also a restrained fury toward the insanity that paints cops as bad guys and criminals as victims.
This system continues to fail us, she said through tears at a packed St. Patricks Cathedral on Friday (right).
We are not safe anymore, not even the members of the service.
Then, speaking to her husband, whose casket she stood near, Luzuriaga added: I know you were tired of these laws, especially the ones from the new ............