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A 20-year-old Venezuelan man who pleaded guilty to shooting two NYPD officers in Queens was sentenced Tuesday to 28 years in prison — in front of the very officers he wounded.
Bernardo Raul Castro Mata did not speak during his sentencing in the Queens courtroom, which was packed with police in a show of support for the officers who were shot during the incident. But Castro Mata’s attorney, Scott Celestin, said his client had “expressed his remorse” since the shooting last June, “and hopes to better his life.”…