New York Daily News

Blaz is ‘sad’ police turned their backs

- BY GRAHAM RAYMAN Dennis Honor was engaged to Irma Lozada (inset top left), who was killed in 1984. In main photo, cop visits Lozada’s grave during 2009 service. ALL DONATIONS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE FAMILY Erin Durkin

5, as she worked an overnight tour in a mobile command vehicle in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx.

“My heart goes out,” Honor said. “(Familia) was doing the job, she was doing what she was supposed to be doing, and in a situation like that there is no way to prepare for it.”

On Sept. 21, 1984, Lozada and her partner chased a teenager who had snatched a chain on the subway. They followed him can’t do the job.’ You had a lot of mixed feelings.”

When Honor was promoted to detective, he was allowed to take Lozada’s shield number: 5142. Honor is married and teaches firearms defense and works as a private investigat­or in Nevada. MAYOR DE Blasio called it “sad” that some cops turned their backs on him during a slain officer’s funeral, while defending his trip to Germany the day after the murder.

“It’s very sad,” de Blasio said of the officers’ gesture outside the funeral of Miosotis Familia, stressing it involved a “small number” of the estimated 25,000 cops who came.

“We were all supposed to be there to respect the family in their hour of pain. That’s the only thing people should have been thinking about, not making some kind of political statement.”

De Blasio angered police unions with his trip to Hamburg to speak at a protest of the G20 forum attended by President Trump.

He said Wednesday the NYPD would release an estimate of the travel costs incurred for his security detail on the trip — but when told the department was refusing to do so, he said he was fine with that.

“When it’s security related, I respect the protocols of the NYPD,” de Blasio said.

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