Rockland law enforcement and residents came out to honor the three victims of the Brink’s robbery that occurred 43 years ago yesterday. Two members of the former Nyack Police Department and a Brink’s guard were gunned down by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground after a robbery at the old Nanuet Mall. At the service held at the Brink’s Memorial in Nyack yesterday, Haverstraw Police Chief, John Gould Junior, said his grandfather, a Clarkstown Police Detective, was among the many Rockland police officials who were on scene that day and part of the subsequent investigation. Gould said his father was also called in while off-duty with the Haverstraw Police Department to help locate witnesses and suspects, following the ambush that took the lives of Sergeant Edward O’Grady, Officer Waverly “Chipper” Brown and guard Peter Paige…
Relatives of the victims — Paige’s son, Michael, Brown’s cousin Constance Frazier, and O’Grady’s widow, Diane — all spoke at the ceremony…
Rockland County Sheriff Lou Falco said the senseless and cowardly acts of the terrorists that day, united Rocklanders and made the county even stronger…
Former Nyack Detective Artie Keane, who was ambushed along with his fellow officers and survived, was also honored at the ceremony.