The daughter of a New York City Police Department officer who was killed on duty reacted to the recent attacks on law enforcement across the country.
Genesis Villella joined Fox & Friends Tuesday morning and discussed her mother’s death in 2017 and the recent protests against law enforcement officers in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
“They have children and loved ones that need them to come home unharmed. And I just want everyone to know those police officers are human too. They have fears, they have people that they love, and they bleed just like the rest of us,” Villella said.
“People like my mom, who was the most amazing person in my life, you know, deserved to not be executed the way that she was because just because of her uniform,” she said.
Her mother, Miosotis Familia, was slain in 2017 while she was sitting in a mobile command unit in the Bronx. She was the first female New York City Police Department officer to be killed on duty since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the city.
“Make no mistake: Officer Familia was murdered for her uniform and for the responsibility she embraced,” former New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, wrote in a message to the department at the time of her death. “And for the N.Y.P.D., regularly achieving lower and lower crime figures means absolutely nothing when one of our own is brutally shot and killed.”
The shooter, Alexander Bonds, was shot by other officers after he killed Familia.
“It’s honestly truly disheartening,” Villella added during the interview, referring to the current anti-police sentiment in the United States.
