South Brunswick Police Attend Officer's Funeral

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — These South Brunswick police officers attended the funeral of murdered Jersey City police detective Joseph Seals on Tuesday.

Exactly one week from the date he was killed — shot once in the head in connection to the Dec. 10 shooting standoff in Jersey City —Seals was given final rites at St. Aedan's in Jersey City. The Bergen Avenue church is one of the most magnificent Roman Catholic cathedrals in the New York metropolitan area, and is the customary location for funeral masses for Jersey City police officers killed in the line of duty.

The officers stood in the pouring, freezing rain for hours. It was too crowded to get inside the church, so hundreds of officers waited outside. When Seals' casket passed, draped in an American flag, officers stood at attention and saluted. Many crossed themselves when his hearse passed.