A sea of blue is expected Tuesday on Bergen Avenue in Jersey City as fallen Detective Joseph Seals is laid to rest during a private funeral.

The solemn ceremony takes place at 11 a.m. at St. Aeden’s Church.

Seals, a 40-year-old Jersey City native, is survived by his wife and five children.

They joined thousands of mourners at Monday’s wake at the McLaughlin Funeral Home.

Detective Seals was murdered last week at Bay View Cemetery during a confrontation with two murder suspects, who would go on to murder three others during an hours-long gun battle with police.

Seals worked his way up through the ranks inside the Jersey City Police Department, starting in the street crimes unit before he was promoted to detective in 2017. He is credited with taking back hundreds of illegal guns.

In just a few hours hours, the Orthodox Jewish community raised a whopping $48,000 for the family of Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals, an 18 year law enforcement veteran and married father of five who was tragically murdered in the Jersey City attack on Tuesday December 10.

Around 1,400 generous donors opened their pockets and donated – to a fund on The Chesed Fund platform – to show their support to law enforcement – and Detective Seals in particular.

The Jewish community turned their heartfelt grief into something more meaningful and donated to this special fund set up for Detective Seals’s family. He made the ultimate sacrifice.

This fund was administered by prominent Jewish community activists Mr. Chaskel Bennett, Mr. Leon Goldenberg and Mr. Moshe Wulliger in partnership with Yeshiva World News (YWN).

The money will be given to the family in the next few days, and YWn will update our readers on that.

May God bless our law enforcement professionals and may he bless Detective Seals memory. #RIP

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