The statue was first commissioned after the 2014 murders of Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, above.
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Among the many flowers, candles and different tributes to slain NYPD officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora is a 900-pound sculpture put in this week exterior the thirty second Precinct stationhouse.
The 8-and-a-half-foot excessive bronze depicts St. Michael the Archangel, the patron saint of police, cradling a fallen officer.
The art work is on mortgage from Patrick Brosnan, who retired as an NYPD detective in 1996 and who first needed to fee the piece after the 2014 murders of Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
Brosnan stated he discovered sculptor Paul Tadlock in Texas who had made an analogous statue, put in in 2010, to honor fallen officers in Odessa.
Efforts to fund the brand new statue fell aside till about 18 months in the past when Brosnan, who runs the Brosnan Threat Consultants safety firm, determined to pay for it himself, shelling out greater than $100,000.
The sculpture arrived at Brosnan’s Rockland County house round Thanksgiving.
“I prayed and hoped that it will stay like some sort of fountain in my yard and by no means need to be deployed to the precincts or stationhouses the place officers might have been murdered,” he stated.
However the tragic deaths of Rivera and Mora led him to move the huge piece to the Harlem stationhouse Thursday utilizing a truck and 7 sturdy males.
He stated he'll go away it there for a number of weeks after which take it elsewhere all through the nation when officers are killed so as to present a measure of solace.
“The underside line is it’s absolutely the least I can do. The least,” he stated. “And I’m pleased that we did it.”
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