he would be proud of it. you wrote an article about him as a man, who he is in the daily beast. you talk about going to the school where he served as a safety officer before he was a police officer talking to the principal there. talk to us about what they said about him. because i know the kids just loved him. they did. first of all, police officer rocco lawrie school named after a police officer who was assassinated along with his partner in 1972. right. each day ralph ramos would sit at a desk with a huge portrait of lawrie s shield behind him. he never shouted at the kids. he walked through the hall and give respect and get respect. if the principal s trying to figure out what he said, there s a lot of he said, he said, in intermediary school and ralph was able to get the truth. they would tell ralph things they wouldn t tell anybody else.
remember what it means to take the job, those of us who are privileged to call ourselves cops. no other profession will give you as much or sometimes take as much. the job can reward you like no other, but one day it might demand from you everything in return. for the ramos family, today is that day. and here we are. new york city police commissioner bill bratton paying tribute to fallen officer rafael ramos. those words so simple, so point yant and hery are. as the brotherhood of police officers mourn and we all wonder how did we get here? how did it come to this? let s bring back in tony herbert and michael daly, let s welcome in cnn contributor and legal analyst mel robbins. thank you all for being here. a very somber day. i was watching it on television. michael, you were there at the funeral this morning.