Hundreds of officers, some from as far away as Colorado, turned out Friday along with New Orleans residents to mourn slain police officer Nicola Cotton -- whose violent death has shaken the city.
An autopsy showed Cotton, 24, was eight weeks pregnant when she was killed.
On Monday, she stopped a man matching the description of a rape suspect, and a struggle ensued as she tried to arrest him.
The man, 44-year-old Bernel Johnson, grabbed Cotton's baton and beat her, New Orleans police said.
Surveillance video showed him grabbing her service revolver, a .40-caliber Glock, and shooting her 15 times in the head and body.
Johnson waited until police arrived on the scene and gave them the firearm.
On Friday, mourners formed a line snaking around the block as they waited to file past Cotton's flag-draped coffin.
At her funeral, friends and fellow officers remembered her as a having a huge heart.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/01/slain.police.officer/index.html
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