Sharpton to speak at funeral for slain New York City police officer

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:34pm EDT

Sharpton to speak at funeral for slain New York City police officer

NEW YORK | BY JOSEPH AX

The Rev. Al Sharpton is expected to speak at the funeral on Wednesday for New York City Police Officer Randolph Holder, who was shot to death last week while on patrol in the city's East Harlem neighborhood.

The prominent activist, media figure and long-time critic of the New York City Police Department was asked to speak at the service by Holder's father, a spokesman for Sharpton said.

Holder, 33, was killed by a single shot to the head on Oct. 20, the fourth New York City officer to be killed in the line of duty in the last 12 months.

At a press conference on Monday, police officials said they have confirmed that a gun recovered by divers on Sunday from the Harlem River is the weapon that was used in Holder's killing.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/26/us-new-york-police-shooting-idUSKCN0SK27O20151026

[Human101948]

1. Oh my! That's gonna burn the Law and Order crowd!

Cause everybody knows that Sharpton has chanted "Kill the cops!" during demonstrations where people urinated on the corpses of police officers who died because of Sharpton's incitements.

[ChazII]

2. This should be interesting.

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Prayers for the Randolph Holder family as they go through this time of grief.