Throngs of somber police officers in their dress blues lined the sidewalk outside St Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday, awaiting the arrival of a hearse carrying the body of their murdered colleague Jason Rivera ahead of his wake.Uniformed officers accompanied Rivera's casket as it made the journey from Riverdale Funeral Home in Inwood to the imposing Gothic Revival church, arriving shortly before noon on a frigid New York day.The hearse was met outside the cathedral by masked pall bearers, who gently removed the officer's casket, draped in NYPD's blue, green and white flag, and carried it on their shoulders into the cathedral to the heart-rending sounds of Amazing Grace performed by a lone bagpiper.
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