Neighbors Remember NYPD Officer Anastasios Tsakos As Loving Father Who Lent A Hand

CBS New York

April 27, 2021

Fellow police officers are remembering NYPD Officer Anastasios Tsakos as a good guy and a hero.

But to his neighbors, the man known as “Taso” was an incredibly loving and involved father, who only just moved in last summer but quickly made a big impression. He was stuck and killed by an alleged drunk driver early Tuesday morning on the Long Island Expressway.

“My brother was a great guy. He was not selfish at all. He loved being a cop, you know. We kept telling him to be careful, but that’s what he liked and what he wanted to do,” his brother, Teddy, said.

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