D.C. Police Funeral Procession Speeds Across Arlington

The funeral procession for D.C. police officer Paul Dittamo closed the northbound lanes of 395 Thursday for roughly 30 minutes as it made its way from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Lake Ridge, VA towards the district. 

Officer Dittamo died on Oct. 30 on duty after the car he was driving slammed into a utility pole, according to police.

In Shirlington, a short line of cars waited at the northbound entrance ramp to the highway by South Glebe Rd. An Arlington police officer holding traffic saluted the procession in the pouring rain as the procession of police, fire and ambulance vehicles from various municipalities rocketed by for 10 minutes between 1pm and 1:30.

Meanwhile in D.C., Mayor-elect Gray took heat from the Fraternal Order of Police for attending luch with City Council Chair-Elect Kwame Brown at the National Press Club instead of the funeral, according to welovedc.com.