by Mario Buonviaggio
FINALLY!... After 43 years, five Mayors and a ton of red tape, one of the NYPD's fallen Heroes was honored Monday, righting what many officers say was the Department's biggest wrong. Officer Phillip Cardillo was fatally shot in a 1972 ambush when he responded to a bogus emergency call at a Nation of Islam mosque in Harlem.
His murder has caused racial tensions between NYPD and the Black community. Largely in part, the actions taken by then NYC Mayor John Lindsay who largely ignored the murder of Hero Officer Phillip Cardillo. To wait 43 years for paying tribute of a NYPD Officer murdered for doing his job, and Politicians to Kick the can down road is inexcusable.
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