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View Comments The sun shined bright at exactly 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon when a brown curtain dropped from the side of the Arabic American and Chaldean Council s 55 W. 7 Mile Road building in Detroit to unveil a towering Black man in a blue firefighter’s Class A uniform. Detroit Fire Capt. Franklin Williams, covered with images of Detroit first responders and front line workers, looked out from the wall to face his former workplace: Engine 44, Ladder 18. The mural, prominently featuring Williams as the first Detroit firefighter to die from COVID-19, was unveiled the day before Memorial Day a day used to honor service members who died in the line of duty to honor the memory of front-line workers who died from COVID-19. ....
Detroit Police to remember fallen officers with Memorial Walk Correction: Sgt. Rasheen McClain was killed in November 2019. Detroit Three fallen officers will be honored Saturday as the Detroit Police Department alters an annual tradition to remember members of the department who died. A memorial walk is planned at 9 a.m. Saturday to honor Capt. Johnathan Parnell, Sgt. Rasheen McClain, and Officer Waldis Johnson. For two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic, the police department had an annual police week during the week of Mother s Day dedicated to fallen officers. The week consisted of a local memorial and plaque dedicated at Detroit Public Safety Headquarters followed by a trip to Washington, D.C., for police weekend where a candlelight vigil would be held and the officers names added to the memorial wall. ....