Yankees Offer to Pay for Education of NY Cops' Children

NY Daily News: Yankee owner George Steinbrenner died in 2010, but his appreciation for the men and women in blue who protect New York City lives on. 

For 32 years, Steinbrenner's Yankee Silver Shield Foundation has provided for the education of the children of New York City police officers, firemen and Port Authority employees who died in the line of duty, and will do so for the family of NYPD officer Rafael Ramos, gunned down by a cold-blooded killer Saturday along with his partner, Wenjian Liu. 

The foundation will pay for the education of Ramos' son, 13-year-old Jaden, who attends Charles O. Dewey MS in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and offered to pay for the education of another son, Justin, who is a sophomore at Bowdoin College in Maine. 

On Sunday, however, Bowdoin president Barry Mills informed the Ramos family that the college would provide full financial aid to enable Ramos to complete his Bowdoin education.

All class from the New York Yankees, as per usual. This is a tragic event no matter how you look at it. If you support the killing of these cops because of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner tragedies, then you can get out of this country now. These two guys had nothing to do with either of those deaths, and flat out didn't deserve to be killed. This is a sad time for the families of these two cops, especially rough because it's around the holidays, and the Yankees are just doing whatever they can to help. And I applaud them for that.

Thoughts and prayers to the families of officers Ramos and Liu.