"Look around you. Look at all the NYPD officers here and outside this mosque and across this city who stand with you. I stand with you. I am so heartbroken for you for you and your family. And as we scan that sea of blue, you will notice they look a whole lot like Didarul. They wear his uniform, his shield, his collar brass, they carry on his purpose and are sworn to finish the work he started and they will be there for you. Always," Tisch said.
Islam was born in Bangladesh, moved to New York at the age of 20, and joined the NYPD as a school safety agent in 2019 before he became an officer two years later.
"His watch may be over, but his impact will never be," Tisch said.
As is tradition, Tisch posthumously promoted Islam to the rank of detective first grade.
Tisch said Islam regularly worked 12 hour shifts at the 47th Precinct in the Bronx, and worked "more than a full tour" at the Dominican Day Parade in the Bronx Sunday, before picking up an extra shift at 345 Park Avenue Monday afternoon.
Gov. Kathy Hochul called Islam "the barrier" that protected people in the building, and said without him, they may not be alive today.
She called on New Yorkers to show "greater gratitude for our police force. They have not received enough in years of late, in my opinion, and it must be rectified. They need our support."
Mayor Eric Adams remembered the birth of his own son, Jordan, who is now 29, when he met Islam's father the night before the funeral.
"I'm not here as a mayor, I'm here as a parent, a father...many people don't fully understand, if you have not been a parent, you don't fully understand the relationship between a parent and a child," Adams said. "Throughout my life and my son's 29 years of life, I only hope that one day he will have the honor to bury me as his dad. Because sons are supposed to bury their dads. Mothers are supposed to be buried by their daughters and their children. There is nothing more tragic than having a parent bury their child."
At the time of the shooting Monday, Islam was off-duty but working a private security detail assignment. The department says he became on-duty at the time he engaged the suspect.
He is the first NYPD officer of Bangladeshi descent to be killed in the line of duty.
Islam was the father of two young boys and was married. His wife is pregnant and is due with their third child next month.
He was assigned to the 47th precinct at a stationhouse in Baychester, where purple bunting hangs. He was on the force for three and a half years.
More than $200,000 has been raised for officer Didarul Islam's family so far by two online fundraisers posted Tuesday afternoon.
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