Eugene Sheehan

On October 22, 1907, in Manhattan’s Chatham Square, Eugene Sheehan, a 26-year-old White male, was walking his post as a New York City patrolman when an ordinary moment turned suddenly deadly.

A man in the square was causing a disturbance, the kind of street disorder a uniformed officer was expected to quiet with a firm word and a steady presence. Sheehan told the man to move on, but the man refused. When Sheehan tried to physically usher him out of the park, the struggle tightened to a ...

Patrolman Eugene M. Sheehan

Reflections for Patrolman Eugene M. Sheehan, New York City ...