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Actress Fired After Ranting About Street 

Closures For NYPD Det. Jason Rivera’s Funeral

By Tina Moore, Larry Celona and Melissa Klein  January 29, 2022 9:33pm  Photos Paul Martinka  
Additional Comments By a Really Pissed Off Editor Al Jacobson Who Supports Our Police

A New York City actress was fired from her theater company for mouthing off about the inconvenience of street closures for slain cop Jason Rivera’s funeral — a vile online rant she quickly deleted after it went viral. 

—  SHE’S PRETTY, PRETTY STUPID, KILLED HER CAREER, PERFECT JOB FOR HER
WOULD BE WITH FOX NEWS WHERE THE OTHER DUMBASS SCUMBAGS WIND UP — 

Thousands of NYPD officers attend the funeral for fallen Detective Jason Rivera on Jan. 28, 2022.  Rivera was given a hero’s farewell at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Guzman has been identified as an actor with Face to Face Films in New York City. facetofacefilms.net .  I think she should leave town.

Condemnation of Guzman was swift.  “New Yorkers turned out by the thousands yesterday to help us honor our fallen brother. One person spreading hate cannot erase that. This kind of garbage has polluted the conversation for far too long. We need the New Yorkers who are standing with us to speak up and push back,” PBA President Patrick Lynch said.

One Brooklyn cop said the video was “ Totally disrespectful, not only to the NYPD but to all New York residents and to all humans. If this is the only way she can get publicity, I feel very sorry for her.”

The name of Guzman’s acting company, Face to Face Films, and other personal details about her were posted to social media.  “Face to Face Films has just been made aware of an insensitive video involving one of our members, Jacqueline Guzman. Face to Face Films does not support nor can condone these comments made about fallen Officer Rivera. As a result, she is no longer a member of our company,” the company posted on its Facebook page.

Anthony Laura, the founder of Face to Face, said Guzman was an actress with the film and theater company but declined to say more.  Face to Face Films has denounced Guzman’s comments regarding the funeral held for NYPD Officer Rivera.   “Everything is in the statement,” he said.  Guzman’s bio on the Face to Face site, which was later removed, said she “is a Cuban American actress based in NYC, originally from Hialeah, Florida.”

Guzman had taken down her social media accounts by Saturday night. She did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Although she had deleted the video, it continued to circulate on social media because it had been copied and reposted by other users. 

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Dear Guzman:  Words have meanings and your words are  INSENSITIVE, when defined:  insensitive is unaware or showing little or no regard for other people's feelings and emotions. When you show little concern for what others are going through, this is an example of a situation where you are insensitive.  I don’t see you as an actress, more like a cold-blooded self indulgent nothing.  Have a nice day you truly earned a Douchbag award as you are one.  

The widow of slain NYPD officer Jason Rivera has slammed New York’s political authorities in a blistering eulogy for her husband.   “The system continues to fail us,” Dominique Luzuriaga said at Mr Rivera’s funeral at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Friday. “We are not safe anymore – not even the members of the service.”

Her voice wavering, Ms Luzuriaga expressed not only her deep sadness, but anger at some of the city’s most prominent figures, including Manhattan’s new district attorney.

“I know you were tired of these laws,” Dominique Luzuriaga said, addressing her departed husband. “Especially the ones from the new DA – I hope he’s watching you speak through me right now.”

DET. JASON RIVERA and WILBERT MORA

Officer Jason Rivera was killed on Jan. 21 while responding to a 911 aid call in Harlem. 

• He and his partner were ambushed by a felon with a Glock .45 and an extended magazine.  
• A third officer Sulan took the gunman down with a shot to the head and arm who later died.
• McNeil was out on probation at the time of the shooting on a 2003 felony narcotics charge in New York City and had four arrests in other states.
• After Rivera and Mora walked from the front of the apartment down a narrow hallway to check on McNeil, he swung open a bedroom door and began shooting, police said.
• Both officers were gunned down before they could pull their weapons and defend themselves, police said.
• As McNeil tried to flee, Sulan, who had stayed with McNeil's mother in the front of the apartment, shot at McNeil and wounded him in the head and arm, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said.
• McNeil had a 2003 drug conviction in New York City. He also had several out-of-state arrests. In 1998, he was arrested in South Carolina on suspicion of unlawfully carrying a pistol, but records show the matter was later dismissed.
• In 2002, he was arrested in Pennsylvania on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, Essig said.
• McNeil had been married but the couple separated nearly two decades ago, according to Theresa Noa, who is married to his ex-wife's brother. She said McNeil had four children from that marriage.
• Police said the gun used in Friday's shooting, a .45-caliber Glock pistol with a high-capacity drum magazine capable of holding up to 40 extra rounds, had been stolen in Baltimore in 2017.
• Rivera, fatally shot on Jan. 21 while responding to a domestic disturbance call. Rivera, just 22, died that same day; his partner, Wilbert Mora, 27, died four days later after five people received his donated organs.
• Although dozens of stories have been aired and written since the shooting, Friday’s service provided a more complete understanding of Rivera and his legacy. At the same time, we were offered a lesson in what has always been our nation’s strongest suit — the essential goodness that undergirds our aspirations and the willingness of so many to offer their lives in service to others.
• We learned from his older brother Jeffrey that Jason had wanted to be a cop his whole life. Growing up, he would never miss a police show on TV and would lie on the couch wearing headphones, tuned to the police radio frequency. “He was afraid of dogs," Jeffrey recalled, "but he wasn’t afraid to die.”
• We heard from Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell that Rivera recently sold his car and had begun taking the bus to work “so he could save every penny to make a better home.” Turning toward Cardinal Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Sewell said, “I’m a work in process, Cardinal. But if he [Rivera] can change the world, then we can change the world with him and for him.”
• This was the essential message of each speaker. Like countless Americans whose names we’ll never know, Rivera loved his family, worked hard and strove to improve the world around him. “Salt of the earth” is what we used to call such people. Specifically, Rivera wanted to help end the chaos and spiking gun violence in his city — with homicides at their highest level in a decade.
• Not that further evidence is needed, but a text exchange the morning of the funeral with my Manhattan niece was certainly on point. I was expressing concern about the coming weekend’s winter-weather “bomb cyclone,” to which she responded: “More concerned with being stabbed in NYC.”
• New York Mayor Eric Adams, who spent 22 years as a police officer, described the funeral as a “biblical moment” for the city. It certainly felt that way from my perch in South Carolina, and doubtless everywhere else that people watched and listened. 
• There was even a hint of Old Testament when Rivera’s bereft bride segued from the heart-wrenching story of their argument the last time she saw her husband to a starkly dispassionate indictment of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s new go-easy-on-criminals policy.

 —  If I heard correctly, she issued a call to arms,  these men deserve 

our efforts,  as do others who paid the ultimate price — 

MAY OUR HEROS REST IN PEACE