President Biden Honors Medal Of Valor Recipients In The East Room Of The White House

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 17: U.S. President Joe Biden kisses Dominique Rivera (C), wife of fallen Detective Jason Rivera, after giving her the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor during a ceremony where New York Police Detective Sumit Sulan (L) and Gabina Mora, mother of fallen Detective Wilbert Mora, also received medals in the East Room of the White House on May 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. The medals are given for “extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty.” In 2022 Sulan shot and killed a gunman who had shot fellow officers Mora and Rivera who had responded to a family dispute in a Harlem apartment. Mora and Rivera later died from their wounds. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)