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B’KLYN COP & HIS KIDS LAID TO REST

Hundreds of police officers packed a Crown Heights church to mourn a fellow cop killed in a tragic New Year’s Day car crash.

Brooklyn housing cop Louicasse Pierre, 39, and his two daughters, Arabellah Cassidy, 4, and Ashley Pierre, 9, died when their car careened off a New Jersey highway.

“Three at once – it’s very hard for us,” said Pierre’s brother, Duquai, 31, an officer in the 69th Precinct. “We have to deal with it somehow.”

Several women began shrieking and had to be carried out when the pastor blessed the girls’ white coffins with holy water.

Haitian-born Pierre joined the NYPD in 2003 after getting his bachelor’s degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He later earned a master’s degree.

Pierre proved himself “a smart, hardworking cop who really cared,” said Housing Chief Joanne Jaffe.

Pierre and his daughters were buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in East Flatbush.

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