Brian Mayer on WNYC, Mayor

held his weekly news conference yesterday

as he was grappling with some very hard news.

Police officer Jonathan Diller was shot and killed on duty

in Queens Monday night, and that same evening, a man was pushed onto the tracks and killed in Manhattan

in the subways. The mayor spoke of the pain. And losing Jonathan, it hurts a lot.

I remember sitting in the hospitals in the beginning of this term and standing over those hospital beds

and sitting inside that vehicle after leaving there,

trying to just figure out when am I going to have to say at the funeral?

What am I going to say to this family?

We'll hear more clips from the news conference and discuss them with our lead,

Eric Adams, reporter now, Elizabeth Kim, who joins us as she does most Wednesdays

after the mayor's weekly Q&As with the press.

Hi, Liz. Hi, Brian.

So it was a somber mood at the press conference yesterday, would you say, with this backdrop?

Very much so. And you could really hear the pain in the mayor's voice when he's talking about,

you know, one of the most, I guess, tragic rituals that every mayor is forced to confront, which is when a uniformed officer dies is killed in the line of duty, he has to speak with the family, he has to address the members of the NYPD, He has to deliver a eulogy at the funeral. And,

you know, as he said in those remarks, you know, there were echoes of his first year in office when

the two officers, Mora and Rivera, were slain in response to a domestic dispute.

And you can't help but know that because the mayor was a former police officer,

there's also added personal relevance, resonance for him.

You know, he earlier prior to talk, prior to that moment, he talks about how it brought back memories of his

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