NEW YORK—On the way to regulating Sunday’s climate change march, nine police officers in a marked NYPD vehicle collided with a plastic orange barrier in the Bronx. Eight were injured and one died.
Twenty-five year old Michael Williams was ejected from his seat in the car through the right rear window and was pronounced dead in Lincoln Hospital.
The eight other officers were sent to nearby hospitals in the Bronx where they were found to have sustained non-life threatening injuries.
“Very early in the day, we lost one of our finest--one of the newest members of our finest. That hurts even more,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “Officer Williams’ dream was to be part of the NYPD. He came from a police family, this is what he wanted to do with his life. He got there, he fulfilled his dream.”
“We’re all in a lot of pain to lose a good young man, who was just starting out,” he added.
Two officers, Wesley Taveras, 25, and Francine Devalle, 29, were kept for overnight observation.
Williams’ funeral will be held on Thursday in LaGrangeville.
Officer Dead in Car Accident on Way to Climate March
NEW YORK---On the way to regulating Sunday’s climate change march, nine police officers in a marked NYPD vehicle collided with a plastic orange barrier in the Bronx. Eight were injured and one died.
Around 310,000 attendees were at the People's Climate March in Manhattan, New York, Sept. 21, 2014. Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times
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