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The grieving widow of NYPD hero Jonathan Diller was forced to cover her ears inside a Queens courtroom Tuesday as her husband’s final moments were recounted before her.
Stephanie Diller cupped her hands over her ears and glanced at the floor as the lawyer for career criminal Guy Rivera, her husband’s accused killer, described his death — and blamed police.
“All of the [Command Response Team] officers in this case, they are invested,” defense attorney Jamal Johnson told the jury. “They have a motive to lie.
The widow, who was left to raise the couple’s toddler on her own after the March 25, 2024, fatal shooting in Far Rockaway, has sat among New York’s Finest throughout the trial.
She has repeatedly left the courtroom when bodycam footage and images of her husband’s final moments were displayed for the jury — but remained in her seat Tuesday.
Prosecutors presented several bodycam clips that appear to show Rivera shooting Diller and mortally wounding him, then smiling as he’s taken down and handcuffed.
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