A Widow’s Righteous Anger

Sadly, this will be an Easter forever burned into the heart of Stephanie Diller. She buried her police officer husband, Jonathan Diller, shot by a vile thug who should not have been on the streets.

In a deeply moving eulogy, Stephanie fell back on the values of family and faith. She shared with the mourners what a wonderful husband her slain hero was and the pride on his face when their son, Ryan, was born one year ago.

But Stephanie Diller also called out the leftist politicians who wanted to come to the funeral, even though they also have Jonathan’s blood on their hands.

“How many more police officers and how many families need to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them,” she asked. Thousands of police officers who stood outside the church were asking the same question.

Four current and former presidents were in New York last week. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden did not offer one word of comfort for Stephanie Diller or her family.

Only Donald Trump quietly attended Officer Diller’s wake. Father Michael Duffy asked President Trump if he would join them in prayer. “Of course,” Trump said, and he joined the room in saying the Lord’s Prayer.

Father Duffy added, “Then the president so beautifully turned and kissed baby Ryan on the forehead. And the baby clapped at the president. It just broke the tension. . . [It] meant so much to the family and to the people in that room.”

It’s striking that yet again we see an American Christian rising to the occasion. Jonathan Diller rose to the occasion every day he went out onto the streets, as do thousands of American police officers.

But in her grief, Stephanie Diller showed righteous anger. She took the time to go back and read the eulogies other police wives had written for their fallen husbands. Many of them also asked when our government would wake up and protect the people who keep us safe.

This righteous anger is rising all over America. We see it in Laken Riley’s parents. We see it in the father who cried out, “Abbey Gate,” from the House gallery as he watched the man who left his son at the mercy of jihadists in Afghanistan.

It was also the men at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, though not enough of them, as they jumped up and removed the pro-genocidal demonstrators who interrupted an Easter mass. (See below.)

If we are going to save America from the secular, neo-Marxist left, more men and women of faith, filled with righteous anger, must stand up and fight for our values!