Thousands Honor Slain New Jersey Detective

Thousands Honor Police Detective

December 17, 2019Updated: December 17, 2019
News Channel NebraskaBy News Channel Nebraska

NEW JERSEY - Thousands of police officers are lining the streets of Jersey City in a cold rain to honor a police detective killed in an attack last week.

A married father of five, Joseph Seals was killed in a confrontation with two attackers who then drove to a kosher market and killed three people inside before dying in a lengthy shootout with police.

 Jersey City Director of Public Safety James Shea called Seals a model for other officers.

The Department of Justice says U.S. Attorney General William Barr will be at the funeral.

 Authorities believe the attack at the market was fueled by anti-Semitism.