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By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press - Tuesday, May 4, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City police officer killed by a suspected drunken driver was hailed Tuesday at his funeral as a humble public servant, a doting father and a “perfect picture of the American dream.”
Anastasios Tsakos, a 14-year veteran of the police department, was struck and killed last week while assisting officers at the scene of an earlier crash on the Long Island Expressway in Queens.
“It does not make sense how someone could live his life right in every way and be taken from us so horribly, but his heroism uplifts us,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told mourners at a Long Island church. “Some people are true heroes. Some people are there for others. And that in every way was Anastasios Tsakos.”
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The widow of Anastasios Tsakos the NYPD cop killed by a drunk driver sobbed as she remembered her beloved hubby as the love of my life and an awesome dad at his funeral Tuesday. I wish we had more time to watch our kids grow, Irene Tsakos said in front of mourners at the packed Saint Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church in Greenlawn. I wish we could grow old together. That was the plan, but you were taken from us too soon. Irene Tsakos holds the hands of her children as she watches NYPD officers fold an American flag that draped the casket of her husband NYPD Officer Anastasios Tsakos during his funeral service at St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church on May 04, 2021 in Greenlawn, New York.