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Updated: Saturday, July 8, 2017, 5:38 PM

The Rev. Al Sharptons National Action Network contributed $5,000 Saturday to assist the three children of assassinated NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia.

Just like we stand with the victims of police brutality, we must stand with the police and their families when they are wrongly murdered, Sharpton announced at his Harlem headquarters.

The donation from NAN boosted the total collected so far by a Daily News fund-raising effort to $88,470. The fund remains open for additional gifts.

Sharpton noted that Familia, 48, left behind a 20-year-old daughter and twin 12-year-olds a boy and a girl. The oldest child is in college.

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Those children are robbed because their mother went and defended ... the people of the Bronx, said Sharpton. (She) lost her life because she did what we asked her to do, be a good cop and put on a uniform and do the right thing.

And even though we protest police, we feel their pain and we stand by them.

The 12-year police veteran was marked for death by a cold-blooded killer who shot her in the head from point blank range as Familia sat inside an NYPD vehicle parked on a Bronx street.

The killer was then shot to death by officers barely a block away from the murder scene.

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Daily News donor Chris Kupchik, who lives in Pennsylvania, said he was stunned by word of Familias execution.

It seemed inconceivable to me that someone could so callously end another persons life, he said. Things like this shouldnt happen not at all.

I know that Ill never be able to stop things like this from happening, but I still felt compelled to do something to try to help ease the pain felt by the family.

The Daily News fund was launched with a $10,000 donation from the newspaper.

A second News contributor insisted on anonymity after kicking in $500.

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Her shooting is about as horrible a story as they come, the donor said about the street shooting. Im a native New Yorker and this felt very personal. Impossible to imagine what the family is going through.

Hopefully your fund will help them make it through this.

Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, joining Sharpton at his House of Justice, described Familia as the head of a large extended family that also includes her 86-year-old mom and nine siblings.

All the aunts and uncles and cousins and sisters and brothers would gravitate around her naturally, said Espaillat, who visited with the Familia clan two days ago.

He also thanked Sharpton for helping out with the needs of the devastated relatives.

I was to thank you for the special show of solidarity with the Familia family, he said. Her loss is not just a loss for her immediate family, but her extended family. So we want to thank you for that.

A Bronx wake was planned for Miosotis Familia on Monday, with a funeral to follow on Tuesday.

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