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Sarah Maslin NirThe New York Times


NextImg:Final Salute to a Fallen Officer: Images of Loss and Remembrance

Under a cascade of rain, with hundreds of law enforcement officers standing in soaked silence, a white hearse carrying the body of Officer Didarul Islam made its way down White Plains Road in the Bronx on Thursday.

“His watch may be over,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at the funeral for the officer, who was killed by a mass shooter in Manhattan three days earlier. “But his impact will never be.”

Commissioner Tisch, who wore a head scarf to the service out of respect for the officer’s Muslim faith, told the mourners that he had been posthumously promoted to detective first grade.

The service for Detective Islam, 36, was held in his neighborhood at the Parkchester Jame Masjid, the mosque where he had been a benefactor and mentor to young Bangladeshi immigrants much like himself.

Mourners included officers from at least 54 of the city’s 77 precincts, who saluted the casket as it passed with the white-gloves of their formal dress, along with uniformed members of the U.S. Air Force, the governor and the mayor — and Detective Islam’s two young sons and wife, who is eight months pregnant.

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As the casket of Didarul Islam was borne on the shoulders of his colleagues, his family gathered to mourn on Thursday.Credit...Vincent Alban/The New York Times
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As rain poured down, officers stood silently in honor of their fallen colleague.Credit...Vincent Alban/The New York Times
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Mourners convened in the streets of Detective Islam’s neighborhood in the Bronx.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times
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Before the funeral, mourners streamed in, with posters memorializing Detective Islam present. Credit...Vincent Alban/The New York Times

Inside the masjid was Detective Islam’s casket; it was covered with the green, white and blue standard of the Police Department.

Outside, thousands of police officers, mourners and neighbors stood vigil along Gleason Avenue.

Over the elevated subway tracks, an American flag was lofted between two cranes in his honor.

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The casket of the officer, who was killed on Monday during a shooting at a Midtown Manhattan office tower, was covered in the green, white and blue standard of the Police Department.Credit...Amir Hamja for The New York Times
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A solemn air descended over the streets.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times
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Symbols of respect and patriotism enveloped the neighborhood that Detective Islam called home.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times
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Bangladeshi police officers came to remember one of their own.Credit...Amir Hamja for The New York Times

Detective Islam was the first to be shot when a gunman entered an office tower at 345 Park Avenue, where he was moonlighting as part of the security detail.

The three other victims lived lives filled with accomplishment and connection, as Detective Islam did: Aland Etienne was a security guard known for putting others first and whose family called him “a light in our lives.” Wesley LePatner was a top-ranking executive whom her employer, investment firm Blackstone, described as an “amazing light.” And Julia Hyman was a real estate associate who had recently started working in the building and was said to have had a “heart of gold.”

Outside the mosque, Husne Ara Begum, 67, a relative, said that when she moved to America from Bangladesh, Detective Islam did grocery runs for her, and helped her assimilate. Her voice broke.

“He was a very good man,” she said.

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On the sidewalk, officers mixed and mingled with crowds of women in hijabs and men in skullcaps.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times
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Tears and raindrops fell on the streets of the Bronx on Thursday.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times
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The funeral drew hundreds of police officers from at least 54 of the city’s 77 precincts, and more still from neighboring states and counties. Credit...Vincent Alban/The New York Times
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CreditCredit...By Amir Hamja