The New York City Sergeants Benevolent Association has warned city council members to skip slain Officer Jonathan Diller’s funeral this weekend – and accused them of being complicit in his death through their “twisted ideology” on policing.
SBA President Vincent J. Vallelong predicted in a missive Wednesday that city council members who show up to the father of one’s funeral in Massapequa Park on Saturday would “shed a few crocodile tears” and use the event as a “good photo opportunity.”
“The Council members who are vehemently and inexplicably against public safety are responsible for the carnage in the streets and the heartbreak brought about by PO Diller’s completely avoidable death,” Vallelong insisted.
Diller, 31, was allegedly gunned down by career criminal Guy Rivera, 34, during a traffic stop in Queens on Monday evening.
Vallelong said in the wake of the killing, he has “anger directed at those who have forsaken the rules and systems of law, thereby emboldening the criminal element to unprecedented proportions.”
His frustration, he said, is further exacerbated by these local lawmakers’ comments on Diller’s death.
“As I read the news and social media posts written by many New York City Council members, it enrages me how hollow and untrue their words of sympathy and empathy are,” he said.