{"id":423000,"date":"2025-12-04T01:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/423000\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:08:23","slug":"philadelphia-police-escort-body-of-officer-andy-chan-to-headquarters-an-absolute-legend-in-our-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/423000\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police escort body of Officer Andy Chan to headquarters: &#8220;An absolute legend in our department&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Philadelphia police officers escorted the body of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-police-officer-andy-chan-dies-six-years-after-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Chan<\/a>\u00a0to the medical examiner&#8217;s office at police headquarters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He died Tuesday, and it was a somber scene as his colleagues gathered to honor his memory.<\/p>\n<p>Chan, a former highway patrol officer, was critically injured on the job nearly seven years ago. A van hit him while he was riding his police motorcycle, causing a brain injury. He never returned to the force and needed around-the-clock care after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Those who knew Chan say his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/annual-andy-chan-holiday-block-party-old-city-philadelphia-highway-patrol-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">legacy<\/a> lives on through the many lives he touched.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Andy Chan was an absolute legend in our department. He meant so much to every single officer. Not just members of the department but throughout the Philadelphia community,&#8221; Sgt. Eric Gripp said. &#8220;And when he was first injured all those years ago, the outpouring of support we received was unprecedented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friends said Chan was known for his beaming smile and infectious personality. Chan, who was 55, is survived by his wife and three children.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral details have not been released.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of Philadelphia police officers escorted the body of Andy Chan\u00a0to the medical examiner&#8217;s office at police headquarters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":423001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,18026,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-423000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-police","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115658627807019400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}