dispute. he wrote a letter to his commanding officer. he wrote, quote, when i applied to become a police officer, i knew this was the career for me. i would be the first person in my family to become a police officer. coming from an immigrant family i will fw the first to say i am a member of the nypd, the greatest police force in the world. growing up i realized how impactful my role as a police officer would be in this chaotic city. i knew something as small as helping a tourist with directions or helping a couple resolve an issue would put a smile on someone s face. he continued, growing up in manhattan, the community s relationship between the community and police were not great. i remember witnessing my brother being stopped and frisked. i asked why were we were being pulled over in the taxi. my perspective on police and the way they police really bothered
me. as time went on, i saw the nypd pushing hard changing the relationship between the police and the community. this is when i realized i wanted to be part of the men in blue, better the relationship between the community and the police. joining me are jason rivera s high school english teachers from washington heights expeditionary school where he graduated in to 17, anthony and samantha, thank you for being with us to talk about your former student. anthony, to you first, can you tell us a little bit about him and how the community is reacting? sure. one of the biggest memories i have of jason is his smile. every day he would come in and say how is it going mr. v. he just radiated this kind of positivity to everyone around him. he was an eternal optimist.
that ranged from everyone, from his peers, his friends, his teachers, principals at our school and even out in the community of washington heights. he was this positive force which makes it all the more difficult that we lost him. he was just a positive force for this community. you can see it in the pictures, samantha. you can just see it, the light that comes from him, the smile that is always on his face. yeah. a number of us in the school community have been compiling pictures, and i m sure you see some of them and you see it in the pride in his nypd portrait.
tucker: this is a fox news alert as he continued to start the country s descent into irrational behavior, one of the biggest school districts in the united states has now announced that because of omicron, students will transition to virtual learning until mid-january. a disaster for families. why are they doing it? the school didn t say, they didn t attempt to justify for data. more they made the decision because of anxiety in the school community appear at what is that even mean? it doesn t mean anything but apparently it s enough now to prevent kids from going to school. it s not just happening in prince george s county, not the only place regressing back into
said they are getting extraordinary support from the school community, the boston public schools, the city of boston, the mayor s office. this school is central to the family s life. denise the mother is the school librarian. that s right. jane, who is the wounded daughter is a first grader there. she ll be returning there as you told us, she s lost a leg. yeah. she ll be returning there in a very different situation. she will. but we expect she ll certainly return and the people who know this family best tell me jane will be back. she s an irish step dancer. she recently started it. it s her passion at the moment. they fully expect she ll be dancing again. it s the kind of girl she is and the kind of family she is. it s not going to stop. but, kevin andrews was very clear they need prayers right now, the school community.