Wake for New York Police Department officer Rafael Ramos

The casket of Rafael Ramos arrives at Christ Tabernacle Church carried by a New York Police Department honor guard in the Queens borough of New York December 26, 2014. Hundreds of mourners were due to gather at a New York City church on Friday to pay their respects for Ramos, one of two NYPD policemen shot by a gunman who said he was avenging the killings this summer of unarmed black men by white officers. (Reuters)

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