New York (AP) women packed a New York mosque on Thursday to honor a police officer born in Bangladesh who embraced the task of protecting his adopted city and gave his life for it when a shooter opened the fire in a one office building This week.
Officer Didarul Islam “believed in the American dream, not as something that has been worked out, but as something built with your own hands,” said police commissioner Jessica Tisch the family and friends of Islam while his colleague officers set rows in line with the Bronx House of worship.
Deleveliness and members of the thriving Bengali community of the New York also brought tribute to the fallen officer during a memorial that emphasized the importance that he attached to the city for his family, background and service.
A married father of two with a third child on the road, the 36-year-old worked in a police in New York by the police by the police, in uniform, when He and three other people Were killed on Monday in the skyscraper of Manhattan who houses the NFL headquarters and other operating firms.
“He was our world for our family. He was a proud NYPD officer against the city who served with compassion and integrity. He lived to help others,” said Islam’s widow in a statement that a family member reads on behalf of her on behalf of the service in the Parkchester Jame Moshid Mosque.
With officers stationed on surrounding security roofs, fire trucks used their ladders to hold a huge American flag over a nearby street. A flatbed truck wore a digital billboard with photos of Islam and a commemorative message from his trade union.
White House sends participation
After coming to the United States, Islam began to build a career In the largest police in the country. He described police work as “a blanket of the community, there to offer comfort and care,” said the police commissioner.
Islam served as a school safety agent before he became patrol officer less than four years ago, and he was promoted to detective on Thursday.
“He could have entered any other occupation he wanted, but he wanted to set up that uniform and he wanted to protect colleague New Yorkers. And he wanted to let us know that he believed in what this city and what this country stood for,” said Mayor Eric Adams, a Democraat, the meeting. “That is the greatest symbol of what we know that we are as a country.”
In Washington, Pers Secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, started her daily briefing by expressing President Donald Trump’s condolences to the family of Islam and said that he “brought the ultimate sacrifice to defend his fellow Yorkers.”
A ‘modest, stable and reliable’ officer
Just like others who spoke, Imam Zakir Ahmed emphasized the immigrant background of the officer and the Muslim faith. But said Islam “lived in a time when people like him are too often feared, taxed and feel like outsiders.”
“It’s time for New York and America to give back – to see us, to hear us, to protect our dignity, the way in which officer Islam protected yours,” said Ahmed.
The oldest of different brothers and sisters, Islam supported his parents in Bangladesh, as well as his wife and two young sons in the Bronx, the imam said. The police commissioner said that Islam worked a long day on a parade on Sunday and then collected a private security hours in the office building on Monday.
Vice inspector Muhammad Ashraf, the commander of the busy Bronx district where Islam worked, said he was a “modest, stable and reliable” officer.
“He knew what it meant to protect the place that gave him a new beginning, and in exchange he gave everything back,” Ashraf said at Thursday’s service.
After the service, the streets filled with people, usually men, kneel in prayer. Some Muslim officers participated, while colleagues stood behind them and watched.
Later greeted officers such as the coffin of Islam, draped in the American and NYPD flags, taken to a hearse for funeral at a cemetery in Totowa, New Jersey.
Other shooting victims who were to rest
Mourters also gathered on Thursday for the funeral of investment company Executive Wesley Lepatner, 43, a married mother of two who was shot in the lobby of the building.
“There is currently a huge gaping hole in Mount Everest format in my life,” said her husband, Evan Lepatner, during his praise in Central Synagogue in Manhattan.
More than 500 people attended the funeral, the New York Post reported. Lepatner was one of Blackstone’s top managers, specialized in real estate.
Another victim, employee of real estate company Julia Hyman, 27, was mourning for one Emotional service On Wednesday on the same synagogue is only blocks from where the shooting took place.
Funeral arrangements for the fourth shooting victim, guard aland Etienne, have not yet been completed.
Governor praises the officer for saving lives
The police identified De Schutter as Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old former football player in high school most recently worked in the security department of a Las Vegas Casino. Authorities say he believed he has one Brain disease linked to contact sports And accused the NFL of hiding the dangers of football.
On Thursday, the police said they found more than 800 rounds of ammunition in the car of Tamura and 47 Shell -Oomhulsels had found in the lobby of the building and the office floor where Hyman was killed.
The police said that Tamura had a history of mental disorders, but they did not work out more than on say they have found psychiatric medication Prescribed to him in his home in Las Vegas.
Officials said he was On the way to the NFL office But took the wrong lift and accidentally went to another floor. The gunfire has seriously injured an NFL employee in the lobby.
Islam “saved lives. He was in front,” said Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, at Thursday’s service. “Others may be living today because he was the barrier.”
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Associated Press reports Carolyn Thompson in Buffalo, New York and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.
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