It’s important to remember that the blame for the “friendly-fire” death of Police Officer Brian Mulkeen rests primarily with Antonio Lavance Williams, who apparently tried to grab for the officer’s gun, setting off the shooting by other cops that left both men dead on a Bronx street Sept. 29.
But this was the second such death this year, with the first officer, Brian Simonsen, accidentally slain by colleagues during their response to a burglary at a Queens cell-phone store. His widow, Leanne Simonsen, told the New York Post Oct. 2, “I know things happen in seconds. But there’s gotta be some way that you clear your guys before you just start firing.”
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