Powerful Eulogy From NYPD Widow Ends With A Call To Action
The widow of Jonathan Diller did more than just give a tribute to her fallen husband
In her first public comments since the tragic death of her husband, Stephanie Diller gave a powerful tribute to the life and memory of her husband.
In less than ten minutes, those of us who knew little more of him than what a news story could tell us saw the contours of his life take shape. His upbringing. His family life. What kind of a man and father he was.
It was a touching tribute, and worth taking the ten minutes to watch.
Toward the end of her remarks, she invoked the names of two other members of New York’s finest who also tragically lost their lives in the line of duty: William Mora and Jason Rivera… connecting her late husband’s story to theirs.
A wife’s heart-wrenching eulogy for her hero husband.
Stephanie Diller talks about her beloved husband, Officer Jonathan Diller. pic.twitter.com/gVAwTnZHgr
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) April 1, 2024
Beginning at about the 8:30 mark she says:
It’s been 2 years and 2 months since Detective Rivera and Detective Mora made the ultimate sacrifice just like my husband Johnathan Diller. Dominique Rivera stood in front of all the elected officials present today, pleading for change.
But change never came.
And now, my son will grow up without his father, I will grow old without my husband, and his parents will have to say goodbye to their child. How many more police officers and how many more families need to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them?
I don’t wish this kind of pain on anyone. Jonathan lived his life doing good for people and it’s now time for people to do good for all the officers he represents.
It’s easy for politicians to get swept up in a well-funded and orchestrated social justice cause like the ones we saw in 2020. But the uncritical acceptance of both a narrative and the agenda it is used to achieve carries with it some serious unintended consequences.
In a matter of weeks, the reputation of police went from being Covid Heroes being publicly applauded, to murderous bigots worthy of nothing but contempt, whose programs must be defunded to protect the lives of the innocent.
Diller joined the force AFTER the pandemic, knowing the growing contempt and rage that was being whipped up against cops by race-baiting politicians and grifters. He did it because he believed he would be doing good.
It cost him his life.
All his widow asks in honoring his memory is that we take steps to keep this from happening to another Jonathan Diller.
It will take some changes in law — especially relating to the seriousness of legal penalty for attacking law enforcement. But just as importantly, it will take some changes in our political rhetoric.
When we have citizens walking around who genuinely believe that thousands of unarmed young men are shot dead by police every year — despite statistics showing that number to be a few or at most, a number measured in ‘dozens’ — anti-police hysteria will be framed as an unending him-or-me battle of life or death.
Politicians, race hustlers, news media, and a wide variety of social influencers have all played a role in how we got here. But if we are going to dig ourselves out of this hole, we need to start seeing each other not as rival groups to be destroyed, but as fellow citizens, and children of God.
Is this such a radical idea? Maybe. But all the other things we’ve tried have failed miserably.
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