Says ‘we stand with heroes’

THE REV. AL Sharpton’s National Action Network contributed $5,000 Saturday to assist the three children of assassinated NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia.

“Just like we stand with the victims of police brutality, we must stand with the police and their families when they are wrongly murdered,” Sharpton announced at his Harlem headquarters.

The donation from NAN boosted the total collected so far by a Daily News fund-raising effort to $88,470. The fund remains open for additional gifts.

Sharpton noted that Familia, 48, left behind a 20-year-old daughter and twin 12-year-olds — a boy and a girl. The oldest child is in college.

“Those children are robbed because their mother went and defended . . . the people of the Bronx,” said Sharpton. “(She) lost her life because she did what we asked her to do, be a good cop and put on a uniform and do the right thing.

“And even though we protest police, we feel their pain and we stand by them.”

The 12-year police veteran was marked for death by a cold-blooded killer who shot her in the head from point-blank range as Familia sat inside an NYPD vehicle parked on a Bronx street.

The killer was then shot to death by officers barely a block away from the murder scene.

Daily News donor Chris Kupchik, who lives in Pennsylvania, said he was stunned by word of Familia’s execution.

“It seemed inconceivable to me that someone could so callously end another person’s life,” he said. “Things like this shouldn’t happen — not at all.

“I know that I’ll never be able to stop things like this from happening, but I still felt compelled to do something to try to help ease