Gov. Cathy Hochul was asked to leave the vigil for slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller on Friday afternoon.
Hochul arrived at Massapequa Funeral Home on Long Island for the second day of visitation around 1:45 p.m.
It appears she was only at the venue for about 10 minutes before being asked to leave.
A police source told the Post that a person could be heard yelling “get her out of here” from inside the crowded funeral home.
On his way to his car, the governor appeared to encounter a man in a black suit who was gesticulating and talking furiously.
Several police officers waiting outside the funeral home clapped as he left.
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Since Diller’s death, Hochul and other New York state lawmakers have been fighting for bail reform in the days since it was revealed that one of the men involved in the shooting was allowed to walk on a gun charge last spring. , has been criticized.
Ahead of the weekend’s service, Vincent J. Vallelong, president of the Sergeants’ Benevolent Association, wrote a scathing letter to city council members warning them not to show their faces.
“Their presence is not just a distraction. It leaves a stain on the legacy of true heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice,” Valerong said, adding that leaders have “taken no moral responsibility” for the killing of the officers. ” should be felt, he added.
