New York City is having a truly bad week with regards to violent crime. On Monday an NYPD officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop.
Officer Jonathan Diller, a married father of a 1-year-old boy, was shot in the stomach after police tried to remove the suspect, identified by sources as 34-year-old Guy Rivera, from the passenger seat of the car near 19-19 Mott Ave. in Far Rockaway, according to the NYPD and sources.
Diller, who had three years on the force, fell to the ground and screamed that he had been “hit” after the suspect opened fire, according to witness Deon Peters.
Rivera, the shooter, had 21 prior arrests and was last released from prison in 2021. Mayor Eric Adams said of the incident, “I can’t not say it any clearer: It is the good guys against the bad guys and these bad guys are violent.”
The same day, a 54-year-old man was shoved into the path of an oncoming…
