# @newsday on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUZNYeAleEJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/55424356-newsday-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-05T23:00:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

Fallen Nassau County Police Officer Patricia Espinosa was remembered as a “great cop” and a “beautiful human being” as hundreds of her fellow officers gathered to attend her funeral, days after she was killed by an alleged drunken driver.

Officers from across Long Island and from New York City stood in formation in sub-freezing temperatures outside St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church. A police pipe and drums band played “Amazing Grace” as Espinosa’s coffin, draped in a thin-blue line flag, was carried into the church.

Read more on this story at the link in bio.
(Photos: Howard Schnapp, Joseph Sperber, James Carbone, and J. Conrad Williams Jr.)
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