NEW YORK - One of two New York police officers shot dead was laid to rest Friday, in a case that has crystallized a rise in gun violence that new Mayor
Kew Gardens: “The Sixth of January,” patterned after “Remember, Remember the Fifth of November,” the Guy Fawkes Day rhyme recalling England’s Gunpowder Plot of 1605: As December the Seventh lives forever in infamy, and 9/11 arrests our attention / So never forget the Sixth of January / The Trump MAGA mob’s insurrection. / Remember, remember the prior November / Trump’s defeat sparked joyous celebration / but refusing conceding he kept bullying, tweeting / and spreading his “voter fraud” contagion. / Each lawsuit he tried to deny votes for Biden / only proved our election’d been fair. / The Electoral College just confirmed common knowledge / that the “stop the steal” hoax was hot air.