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President Donald Trump made his way to New York on a rainy Thursday afternoon to attend the wake of fallen NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, whose end of watch occurred on March 25, 2024.
According to Fox News, Diller was shot in Queens after stopping a man who had allegedly been arrested 21 times in the past. The suspect, Guy Rivera, has been charged with first-degree murder of a police officer.
Officer Diller is survived by his wife, Stephanie, and a one-year-old son. Trump told the press following Diller’s wake, “I just visited with a very beautiful wife that now doesn’t have her husband… their child, [a] brand new beautiful baby sitting there, innocent as can be, and doesn’t know how his life has been changed. The Diller family will never be the same.”
Of the tragic death of Officer Diller, President Trump said, “The police are the greatest people we have, there’s nothing and there’s nobody like them. This should never happen.”
He also called for a return to “law and order,” deriding the violence against law enforcement. “This is not working, this is happening too often,” he decried.
It is perhaps worth noting that at the same time that President Trump was attending the wake of Officer Diller, Joe Biden was attending a fundraiser with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
Diller’s horrific killing comes amid a rapid increase in violent crime in New York City amidst an increasing flood of illegal migrants who have pushed into the urban area.
In fact, the problem has become so bad that, aside from the skyrocketing cost of living, the migrant crisis and violent crime are New Yorkers’ top concerns at the moment, according to Siena College’s recent polling data.
