Mourners to gather for slain New York policeman

Hundreds of mourners were due to gather at a New York City church on Friday to pay their respects for one of two policemen shot by a gunman who said he was avenging the killings this summer of unarmed black men by white officers, Reuters reported.
Targeted for their uniform, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were slain last weekend while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The two officers had been reassigned from another precinct following complaints about violent crime from residents at a housing project.
Friday's wake at Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens, New York City, was for Ramos, 40, who had been on the force for two years and was raising two teenage sons with his wife, Maritza, according to the church and city officials.