Officers stand to attention as murdered Chicago policewoman is laid to rest

Chicago police officers salute as the body of murdered Chicago police officer Ella French is carried into the St Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel for a funeral service (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

Scores of police officers stood to attention as the coffin containing the body of a Chicago police officer fatally shot this month was carried into a South Side church for her funeral.

A sea of officers in their dress blue uniforms formed outside St Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel as mourners, including Mayor Lori Lightfoot, former Mayor Richard M. Daley, and top department officials and friends and family, filed slowly inside to remember Officer Ella French.