My husband went to work during a terrible, terrible time, and he went every day, and he walked out there to protect the community, and people need to remember that. They need to remember that the police officer that you see in the police car or walking or going into this into a store, he's there to protect you and you should respect him for that.

Diane Piagentini

Anybody who commits suicide, that’s a terrible thing for any family, that is a shock.

Diane Piagentini

How could he do something like that? This is a convicted felon. He killed police officers in New York.

Diane Piagentini

They told me [my husband] was shot, but not that he had died.

Diane Piagentini

In the [hospital] parking lot, I learned my husband had died.

Diane Piagentini

He knew what he was doing; he made a choice.

Diane Piagentini

The college can do whatever they want, you know, they can have whoever they want to come in and speak, the main thing is that they should have labeled him what he is: a cop killer.

Diane Piagentini

In 1971, he was convicted in the killing of two New York City Police Officers. He spent nearly 50 years in prison for this crime before being released on parole in 2020.

Diane Piagentini

They are presenting him as a political figure, and that is so untrue, nowhere in that bio does it say he’s a two-time cop killer. Nowhere in there does it say anything about him joining the Black Liberation Army.

Diane Piagentini