{"id":781304,"date":"2026-05-08T05:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781304\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:49:12","slug":"dallas-police-honor-fallen-officer-henry-a-brown-with-ceremonial-street-topper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781304\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Police Honor Fallen Officer Henry A. Brown with Ceremonial Street Topper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the Dallas Police Department honored fallen Officer Henry A. Brown with a ceremonial street topper at I-20 Westbound Service Rd. and North Cedar Ridge Dr.<\/p>\n<p>The department recapped the event in a social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DallasPD\/status\/2052146643198153079?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">post<\/a> on May 6. According to the post, Brown was assisting a stranded motorist changing a tire on April 25, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>As he was retrieving the spare tire from the trunk of the motorist&#8217;s car, another motorist lost control of their car and hit the back of the back of Brown&#8217;s squad car. <\/p>\n<p>The impact pushed the squad car forward into the motorist&#8217;s car, pinning Brown between the two vehicles. He was taken to a local hospital where he died.<\/p>\n<p>Brown served the Dallas Police Department for seven years and won many awards and accolades during his tenure, including 35 accommodations and two life-saving awards. He was named president of Class #222.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to serving in the Texas Army National Guard for 13 years, Brown was a devoted husband, father, son, and brother.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the command staff and the Dallas Police Department joined members of Brown&#8217;s family at the unveiling. <\/p>\n<p>Also on May 6, the department <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DallasPD\/status\/2052018043178353050?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">remembered<\/a> the death of Officer Thomas Grady Burchfield, who died on May 6, 1990. He and fellow officer Michael Okelberry were both killed when their patrol car was struck head-on by a pickup truck traveling in the wrong direction in the 800 block of Woodall Rogers Freeway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, the Dallas Police Department honored fallen Officer Henry A. Brown with a ceremonial street topper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":781305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-781304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116537391166986986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781304","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=781304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}