Ex-President Donald Trump (left) attended the wake of slain New York police Officer Jonathan Diller (right) on Thursday afternoon (Pictures: New York Police Department/Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump called for ‘law and order’ after attending the wake of a police officer gunned down on the job in New York City.
Trump on Thursday afternoon visited family members of Officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot dead at a traffic stop in Far Rockaway, Queens, three days earlier.
‘The police are the greatest people we have. There’s nothing and there’s nobody like them. And this should never happen,’ said Trump at the visitation in Massapequa on Long Island.
‘We have to get back to law and order.
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‘We have to do a lot of things differently. This is not working. This is happening too often.’
Trump, holding an umbrella on the rainy day, added that Diller’s killing was ‘such a sad, sad event’ and ‘such a horrible thing’.
He mentioned Diller’s wife and their one-year-old son who ‘doesn’t know how his life has been changed’.
‘We’ve got to toughen it up,’ concluded Trump, then headed to his motorcade.
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