The funeral for fallen Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera was held Wednesday afternoon, after she was shot and killed in the line of duty earlier this month.
Rivera, 36, born and raised in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, was a single mother to a 10-year-old daughter, and had been with the Chicago Police Department for four years and four months before her death.
Among the speakers giving eulogies at her funeral was Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling, who said that Rivera was “a police officer in every sense of the word” who earned the respect of her fellow officers as a “hard charger.”…