They got the slain officers’ backs.
The families of murdered NYPD Officers Harry Ryman and Anthony Dwyer went before the Parole Board again Friday and pleaded that their killers remain where they are — behind bars.
“You can’t give us back the birthdays, the Christmases, the weddings, all the events in our lives they’ve missed,” Ryman’s daughter, Margaret Ryman-Rainone, said she told the board.
“It’s our job to continue to fight to keep them in prison. And basically every two years we’re always here and will be here until we physically are no longer here.”
Ryman-Rainone was flanked by Ryman’s grandson, Matthew, who was born after the officer was killed in August 1980 and now carries his shield as a member of the NYPD’s intelligence bureau.
Dwyer’s parents were joined by the dead cop’s siblings, Andrew and Maureen, who are pushing for a new law that would make all convicted cop killers ineligible for parole.
“Knowing that they’ll never get out helps me breathe easier,” Maureen Dwyer said.
Ryman was shot dead in Brooklyn as he stopped Barrington Young and two others from stealing his neighbor’s car.
Dwyer died in 1989 when he was pushed down an airshaft by Eddie Matos while chasing a crew of burglars across the roof of a Times Square building.
The slain officers’ families have shown up repeatedly to plead with the board do deny requests by Matos and Young to be sprung.
It will be several months before the Parole Board decides on the convicted killlers’ latest bid for freedom.
“There is no parole from death for Police Officers Dwyer and Ryman and there should be no parole from prison for these cold-blooded cop-killers,” said Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch.
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