Fellow NYPD widows ‘proud’ of Stephanie Diller after eulogy where she called out pols for inaction

Widows of fallen NYPD officers praised Stephanie Diller’s eulogy for her slain husband on Saturday – where she called out politicians for inaction on policies to clamp down on crime.

Diller questioned how many more officers had to “make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them” at funeral services for her husband, 31-year-old Jonathan Diller, who was gunned down during a traffic stop in Far Rockaway, Queens.

“My husband was killed by a repeat offender 26 years ago,” said Margaret Mosomillo, whose 36-year-old husband, Anthony, was shot to death in Brooklyn in 1998 while trying to collar a parolee who had missed a court date.

“She told the politicians that nothing has changed — and she is right,” she continued. “She made her point.”

Mosomillo also commended Stephanie Diller on her strength and poise as she spoke to mourners at the Long Island funeral.

“She was very composed,” Mosomillo said. “She told the world how Jonathan was more [than just] a cop. She did a fantastic job … I wish I would’ve been able to tell everyone how special Anthony was.”

During her eulogy, Stephanie Diller mentioned NYPD cops Jason Rivera and Wilber Mora, who were ambushed and murdered by a career criminal in Harlem back in 2022.

“It’s been two years and two months since Detective Rivera and Detective Mora made the ultimate sacrifice — just like my husband Jonathan Diller,” she said at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Massapequa. “Dominique Rivera stood before all the elected officials present today pleading for change.

“That change never came. And now my son will grow up without his father, and I will grow old without my husband. And his parents have to say goodbye to their child.

“How many more police officers and how many more families have to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them?” she added.

Three-year department veteran Jonathan Diller was killed when he approached two men in a car parked at a bus stop — both career criminals with dozens of prior arrests, according to the NYPD and sources.

Passenger Guy Rivera, 34, shot the officer just below his bulletproof vest in an ensuing scuffle, cops and sources said.

Millie Alcamo, whose 31-year-old husband, Joseph, died in a 1992 car wreck while responding to an emergency call at a Queens housing project, said Stephanie Diller “spoke from the heart.”

“She told everyone how wonderful Jonathan was, and how he was more than a cop,” Alcamo said.

“I also love how she mentioned police officers Rivera and Mora — and told the politicians that nothing has changed in over two years.”

What the strong-willed mom did was very difficult, fellow NYPD widows told The Post.

“I give Stephanie a lot of credit for standing up in front of all of those people, it’s not an easy thing to do,” said Carol D’Allara, whose husband, John, died on 9/11 when he strode into a collapsing tower to save those who remained.

“I’m very proud of her, it was a lovely tribute,” D’Allara told The Post. “She has been overwhelmed with everything that has happened in the last week, but her inner strength was only surpassed by her love for Jonathan. “

Kathy Vigiano, who also lost her husband, Joseph, on 9/11 as he and other members of the NYPD’s elite Emergency Service Unit tried to rescue those trapped in the World Trade Center, echoed D’Allara’s comments.

“She really laid out how good of a man he was,” Vigiano said of Diller.

“She bravely and eloquently painted a picture that left every person who heard her wiping the tears away,” she told The Post. “They were robbed of a good life together by this senseless death.”

Patti Ann McDonald — whose detective husband, Stephen, died seven years ago after being paralyzed in a 1986 shooting in Central Park — said she was “very impressed” with Stephanie Diller.

“She did an incredible job, and I was very proud of her,” McDonald said. “I was moved by her strength and her love for Jonathan. Everyone in the church saw that love.”