The family of fallen NYPD Officer Troy Patterson and the entire New York Police Department laid the hero cop to rest on Friday in an emotional Brooklyn funeral with full honors after he passed away following a three-decade-long coma.
Photo by Dean Moses funeral with full honors after he passed away following a three-decade-long coma.
For many loved ones of police officers, the story of Troy Patterson is their living nightmare. At 27, the officer who graduated from the police academy in 1983 and served the city out of the 60th Precinct was washing his car in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Jan. 16, 1990 when three young men allegedly attempted to rob him of about $20. During the struggle, Patterson was shot in the head, leaving him in a catatonic state for 33 years until he died on April 29.
The mayor commended Patterson for his service during the late 1980s, a time when Hizzoner said the city was overrun with crime. “Do you remember what the streets were like? The streets were filled with crack cocaine, filled with violence—it was filled with a total disregard for public safety. It was filled with people waking up to gunshots and not alarm clocks. But men like Troy stayed, they didn’t flee. They remained in the community and stated that they were not going to surrender our community to those that wanted to bring about terror and violence,” Adams said.
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