Just a job to provide for myself and his parents, but a career that he enjoyed and more importantly passionate about it even though he spent a lot of hours working, he was always love for his work. We spoke about the law and how he applied the law. He was objective in his determination of the law with courtesy, we areith respect and with the highest professionism. Although he worked often, he always took time to spend with me his number one fan and his pamly and friends. He was always there when somebody needed something. When wenjian was not working, he
cared a lot for the chinese community. He wanted to always do his best to help and support. The very community that he was part of wenjians kind heart loved by his friend and colleagues and our extended family ha isthat is here today. The caring son, a loving husband and a loyal friend. You are an amazing man even though you left us early, but i believe that he will have his loving spirit to continue to look out for us. He will keep an
respects and as they wait along the procession line, they are exchange, and the worlds are colliding. it was a sweet moment. mostly you know officers are standing out here. and it is driz canzling on and off, and they are waiting along a packed processional line, and they are waiting to pay their respects. off officers are here from all across the country, and more than 1,100 came in on jetblue for free, but i would venture to say that i would take the guess to say that there are more than 1,100 officers here from out of town. i have seen so many with my own eyes from departments across the country, and not just the officers are here dana and something that i have noticed is that i have seen patrol cars from as far away as ohio. i saw a group of sheriff s deputies on motorcycle who clearly came here from cincinnati out of state, and that is showing that they drove
state told me that they wanted to make it clear that nypd is very diverse, and very diverse and large department. they didn t buy into this idea that there is you know widespread racism. they wanted to come to show and stand alongside their follow officers officers, and show their support because of that reason, and i have to say it is something that is very clear as we stand outside here today. dana, finally, i want to say that it does appear that things are going to be moving along here shortly. as you look down the sea of blue i want to make it clear that this is a very, very long procession line because there is nearly a mile worth of police officers standing here filling up more than half of the street so that they can be here and witness officer wenjian liu s final drive to the final resting place. they are waiting here to pay their final respect ss.
death. i want to bring in rosa flores whose long the procession line and give us a sense of what people are saying to you. why are they there? why is this an important moment for them? all right it appears or sounds like they are in the middle of a prayer there. if we can take the shot well this is an amazing shot here to see all of these uniforms. but if someone who is watching the ceremony inside, if you can let us know as soon as that service begins, we ll get right to that. until then let s get to erin mcpike. we saw just moments a ago the vice president and dr. jill biden walk through the crowd and into the service. that presence, although the vice