GIA IX - February 28 - 19
Giuseppe Petrosino, detto Joe, nacque a Padula, in provincia di Salerno, il 30 agosto 1860,con la sua famiglia era emigrato a New York alla fine dell’Ottocento, ricorrono quest’ anno i 110 anni dalla sua morte.
Group travels to Palermo to pay tribute to Lt. Det. Joseph Petrosino, shot to death there while on a mission to investigate gangsters' ties to NYC.
Joseph Petrosino, left, a heralded New York Police Department detective, was gunned down in the line of duty in 1909 in Sicily. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
ROME (Crux) - Proud New York cops often say that "the NYPD never forgets its own." Lest that come off as mere rhetoric, a group of men and women from the Big Apple were in Rome this week to keep alive the legacy of a brother officer who died over a century ago, and not on the city's mean streets but in far-away Sicily.
Si è tenuta questa mattina, in via Chiusa a Padula, l’intitolazione del Comando di Polizia Locale a Joe Petrosino nel 110° anniversario della sua morte.
Grande successo dell’American Tour dell’Associazione Internazionale Joe Petrosino di Padula negli USA
Una delegazione dell’Associazione ha preso parte a diversi eventi in ricordo del poliziotto italo-americano
Joe Petrosino Association
International, Padula
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