A NEW York actress has been fired from her theater company after complaining about the street closures during the funeral of murdered police officer Jason Rivera.
In the now-deleted video rant filmed on Friday, Jacqueline Guzman said “We do not need to shut down most of Lower Manhattan because one cop died for probably doing his job incorrectly.”
“They kill people who are under 22 every single day for no good reason and we don’t shut down the city for them,” she added in the TikTok clip.
The clip showed Guzman walking down an empty street that had been barricaded for the funeral.
“Like this is fu***** ridiculous. This is fu***** ridiculous. What if somebody is having a heart attack in this area,” she continued.
“Nobody can get to them because it’s all blocked off for one fu***** cop,” she ranted.
A Brooklyn police officer told the New York Post the actress’ statements were “totally disrespectful, not only to the NYPD but to all New York residents and to all humans. If this is the only way she can get publicity, I feel very sorry for her.”
Guzman’s former theater company Face to Face Films released a statement after the video went viral.
“Face to Face Films has just been made aware of an insensitive video involving one of our members, Jacqueline Guzman,” the company said on Facebook.
“Face to Face Films does not support nor can condone these comments made about fallen Officer Rivera. As a result, she is no longer a member of our company.”
According to Guzman’s bio on the company’s website, she is a Cuban-American actress originally from Miami, Florida.
Slain officers Jason Rivera, 22, and Wilbert Mora had been attending an incident involving a mother and son in Harlem, New York City, when they were gunned down.
They suffered fatal gunshot wounds while responding to a domestic incident last Friday.
The casket of 22-year-old Rivera was carried into St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday for his wake ahead of Friday’s funeral.
Hundreds of mourners, many in their uniforms, lined the streets to pay their respects.
The rookie officer had been on the job for barely a year.
Mora, 27, was an officer for four years. He will be buried next week.
