On a Tuesday evening in February 2019, a tragic series of events unfolded in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, New York, leading to the death of New York Police Department Detective Brian Simonsen. The 42-year-old, a respected 19-year veteran of the force, was fatally wounded by friendly fire while responding to a report of an armed robbery at a T-Mobile store. That day, Simonsen, who was his precinct's union delegate, had attended a meeting and could have gone home, but instead chose to
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