Ten of thousands of mourners, including police officers from across the US, are expected to attend the funeral of a New York City policeman shot dead with his partner in their patrol car last month.
Wenjian Liu, the son of migrants from China, will be honoured in a Buddhist ceremony, followed by a police tribute.
Liu and partner Rafael Ramos were shot in Brooklyn on 20 December by a gunman who then killed himself.
Ramos' funeral a week ago was among the largest in NYPD history.
It highlighted tensions between many rank-and-file members of the New York Police Department (NYPD) and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Sunday's funeral follows a wake in the New York borough of Brooklyn, attended by hundreds of officers as well politicians including Mr de Blasio and New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Liu, 32, had been married two months when he was killed. "This is a really tragic story," Mr Cuomo told reporters after the wake.
He said the killing had "nothing to do" with the two officers. "They did nothing wrong. It was pure and random hatred.''
'Disrespect'The rift between some officers and Mr de Blasio - who had appeared to back earlier anti-police protests - resurfaced after the killings of Ramos and Liu.
The head of the city's largest police union lashed out at the liberal mayor, saying there was "blood on many hands."
More than 20,000 officers attended Ramos' funeral on 27 December, and many turned their backs on Mr de Blasio.
Police commissioner Bill Bratton told officers ahead of Saturday's wake to refrain from any "act of disrespect" .
"A hero's funeral is about grieving, not grievance," he wrote in a memo to officers.
The two policemen were shot following a wave of demonstrations over killings of unarmed black men by white police officers, beginning in the Missouri town of Ferguson last summer.
There was anger in New York after a grand jury decided not to press charges against a white police officer over the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner, who was placed in a chokehold while being restrained by police officers.
The man who shot Ramos and Liu, African-American Ismaaiyl Brinsley, killed himself in a subway station as police were closing in.
Brinsley had a history of violence and mental instability. Before attacking the police officers, he had shot and injured his girlfriend, police said.
On the day of the shooting, he went on social media to say he was planning to kill police officers.
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