In New York, thousands of people at the funeral of a police officer

Thousands of police gathered Saturday morning around a church in Queens, New York, for the funeral of one of their colleagues was murdered last week. The murderer had then committed suicide.

Thousands of police officers from all over the United States gathered Saturday morning in Queens, New York, to attend the funeral of one of their own. Rafael Ramos was murdered in the street in Brooklyn on December 20 by a black unbalanced 28 years.

Joe Biden, the US vice president, and Bill de Blasio, New York Mayor attended the ceremony in the Protestant church Christ Tabernacle. Giant screens were installed outside the church for those who can not enter.

"This murder has touched the soul of the country," said the vice president, saying the applause that the NYPD was "probably the best in the country." "I think the police and this incredibly diverse city in the country will show how to overcome divisions," he added.

The double murder, just before Christmas, Rafael Ramos, 40, and his colleague, Liu Wenjian in their company car, parked outside a housing project in Brooklyn, New York shocked and 35,000 police officers. The assailant, a young black balance of 28, then committed suicide on a subway platform.

"De Blasio, we turned your back"

The mayor, Bill de Blasio, Rafael Ramos hailed a "hero", a "man of peace and love," and offered his condolences "to another family, that of the New York police, suffers so much right now. "But when he spoke, hundreds of police outside the church chose to turn his back on big screens broadcasting the ceremony.

Following the tragedy, some police officers had accused the mayor of not having sufficiently supported the police in connection with the protests that have recently denounced the police practices after the death of Michael Brown Ferguson (Missouri) and Eric Garner New York.