The mother of a murdered NYPD cop consoled Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams when he broke down in tears Wednesday following a condolence call to the family of another slain cop who’s set to be buried on Sunday.
Tatyana Timoshenko — whose cop son, Russel Timoshenko, was killed during a routine traffic stop in 2007 — hugged Adams and patted his shoulder as the retired NYPD captain wept outside the Brooklyn home of Wenjian Liu, who was gunned down with fellow cop Rafael Ramos on Dec. 20.
Adams spent sever✤al moments composing himself before speaking to reporters at the scene.
“It was my mother who called me and told me to come and speak with the family, because both her sons were police officers,” Adams said as tears rolled down his face.
“Speaking with the dad, I hope all New Yorkers could hear his story of what his son meant to him. This is just not a paragraph on the history of law enforcement (but) a love affair with the country and a job turned into a tragedy that this family will never overcome.”
Adams said he told Liu’s parents that “they lost a son but they gained a son, and I’m going to be a part of this family and help them through this very difficult time.”
Timoshenko later went inside to grieve with Liu’s newlywed widow and parents.
“We had one son only and they had only one child, too. Our hearts are broken,” she said afterward.
“No matter what we are going to say now, the pain is inside and we try to support as much as we can because we know what they are going through and what they are gonna go through.”
Liu and Ramos were both shot execution-style inside a NYPD cruiser by a cop-h♒ater who traveled from Maryland to avenge the uncharged police killings of Eric Garner in Staten Island and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Also Wednesday, several of Liu’s relatives arrived from China to attend his funeral, emerging grim-faced from a police van and heading into the Liu home.
Their last-minute visas were issued by the US governmeꦗnt at the request of the NYPD.
Liu will be buried near Ramos in the Police Arlington section of the Cypress Hills National Cemete⛄ry following a Buddhist funeral service at the Aevol✱i Funeral Home in Bensonhurst.
During Ramos’ funeral on Saturday, thousands of cops from New York City and beyond protested Mayor de Blasio by turning their backs on a giant video screen that showed him delivering a eulogy inside Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens.