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ByEricTucker The Associated Press WASH I NGTON The Justice Depar tment waded anew Friday into fraught, big city police- community relations, with new Attorney Gen- eral Loretta Lynch de- claring the subject "one of the most challenging issues of our time." She announced a wide-rang- ing investigation into Baltimore's police. The federal civil rights investigation, which city officials sought fol- lowing the death last month of a man in po- lice custody, will search for discriminatory polic- ing practices and exam- ine allegations that Bal- timore officers too often use excessive force and make unconstitutional searches and arrests. The investigation is to build upon the gov- ernment's voluntary and collaborative review of the Baltimore police that began last year. Since then, the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray and the days of rioting that followed exposed a "serious erosion of pub- lic trust," Lynch said, and showed that commu- nity concerns about the police were more perva- sive than initially under- stood and that a broader investigation was war- ranted. "It was clear to a num- ber of people looking at this situation that the communit y 's rather frayed trust — to use an understatement — was even worse and has, in effect, been severed in terms of the relationship with the police depart- ment," Lynch said. The announcement in- dicated that Lynch, who was sworn in last week as the successor to Eric Holder, is likely to keep the Justice Department engaged in a national dialogue about race re- lations and law enforce- ment. That issue consumed the final year of Hold- er's tenure and flared most vividly last sum- mer following the shoot- ing death of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a Ferguson, Missouri, po- lice officer. CIVIL RIGHTS CASE By Frank Eltman and Michael Balsamo The Associated Press SEAFORD, N.Y. Thousands of police from around the country spilled out of a church into the streets sur- rounding a slain New York City officer's funeral on Fri- day, calling for respect and understanding at a time when law enforcement is being deeply scrutinized. Busloads of officers ar- rived from as far as Califor- nia, Louisiana, and Chicago for Officer Brian Moore's fu- neral on Long Island. As a hearse carried his coffin to the cemetery, they lined up 10 and 20 deep to salute him. "Brian's death comes at a time of great challenge" for officers nationwide, who are "increasingly bearing the brunt of loud criticism," Po- lice Commissioner William Bratton said. Only five months earlier, the New York Police Depart- ment mourned two other of- ficers who were killed in an ambush by a gunman who said he wanted revenge for police killings of civilians. "What is lost in the shout- ing and the rhetoric is the context of what we do," said Bratton, his voice crack- ing as he posthumously promoted the 25-year-old Moore to the rank of detec- tive. "What is lost is the way we already work together, the ways we get it right. ... What is lost is that public safety is a shared responsi- bility." Moore died Monday, two days after he was shot in Queens. He and his part- ner were in street clothes in an unmarked car and were stopping a man sus- pected of carrying a hand- gun when the suspect shot him in the head. Moore's death came amid a national debate about po- licing, race and deadly force following the recent killings of unarmed black men by officers in New York; Fer- guson, Missouri; North Charleston, South Carolina, and elsewhere. Amid the outcry, New York City Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, were killed in their patrol car in December. The man who gunned them down had boasted online that he would kill police in revenge for the chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Is- land and the shooting of Michael Brown in Fergu- son. Liu's relatives were among the mourners at Moore's funeral, which was guarded by snipers on the roof of a nearby elemen- tary school as a police heli- copter hovered in the three- mile no-fly zone authorities imposed overhead. Detective Omar Daza- Quiroz, 33, traveled from Oakland, California, to stand with his colleagues — and stand for law enforce- ment. "Right now, it's a tough time in law enforcement," he said. "Sometimes people forget we are human and that we have lives." Moore was the son, nephew and cousin of NYPD officers, and two other cousins serve on Long Island. Moore was so determined to follow them that he took the police en- trance exam at 17 and "de- voted his whole being to the job," Mayor Bill de Bla- sio said. After having to take a few weeks off for medi- cal leave recently, Moore "counted the minutes" un- til he could return to work, and made a gun arrest his second day back — only a few days before he himself was shot, de Blasio said. At Ramos' and Liu's fu- nerals, hundreds of offi- cers turned their backs to the mayor in a searing sign of disrespect. Police union leaders had said de Blasio had helped foster an anti- NYPD sentiment by allow- ing protesters to march through the city's streets after a grand jury decided not to indict an officer in Garner's death. An uneasy truce between de Blasio and the police eventually settled in after some police union infight- ing, a public backlash to a NYPD job slowdown and a series of City Hall invest- ments in the police depart- ment. There has been no similar sign of tensions in the wake of Moore's death, and no backs were turned on de Blasio Friday. De Blasio's "words are measured and careful to know that there's support, and that's important," said Patrolmen's Benevolent As- sociation President Patrick Lynch, who once said de Blasio had "blood on his hands" after Liu's and Ra- mos' deaths. FINAL SALUTE At N ew Y or k offi ce r' s fu ne ra l, police reflect on tough time MARYALTAFFER—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Police officers salute as the procession for New York City Police officer Brian Moore passes a er his funeral mass, Friday at the St. James Roman Catholic church in Seaford, N.Y. PATRICK SEMANSKY — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Gyalwang Drukpa, le , the Buddhist leader of South Asia, prays at the site of Freddie Gray's arrest in Baltimore alongside the Rev. Jamal Bryant, right, and other faith and community leaders, Thursday. 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