Funeral services were held Friday in Crown Heights, Brooklyn for NYPD detective Troy Patterson.
Detective Cliff Hollingsworth held candlelight vigils for his friend every year since.
"I will tell you now that if those 3 young men had tapped him on the shoulder and said, ‘Hey brother can we borrow $20? Can we have $20 to play in this basketball league,’ he would've gladly given it to them."Patterson was an accomplished musician as well as a highly decorated officer in the 1980s during one of the city's darkest chapters, overrun with drugs and murders.
"With barely six and a half years on the job, he amassed over 150 arrests," said NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Edward Caban. Patterson’s cousin, Anthony Patterson said, "He said that he wanted to make a difference in his community."Paul DiGiacomo, the president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association said, "It was cops like Troy who turned this city around.""You touched so many lives and I love you and I honor you. You're my hero."The Historic First Church of God in Christ in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was filled with members of the NYPD.
The family was grateful for the department's support for the past 33 years. Family and friends held on to hope that Patterson might one day recover. "All of us would sit in our cars privately and just uncontrollably cry while we watched such an energetic, joyful, good man live his life in that manner," said Adams.All the news you need to know, every day
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