Local 100 Official Gets Kudos for Tackling Perp on Brooklyn Street
The New York Daily News reports this morning on how our own Joe Landro, Recording Secretary in the Structure Department and a Structure Maintainer B, was outside the Union Hall when he noticed something wrong. Here's the story, as written by Joseph Stepansky and Dan Rivoli:
A transit union official got to dabble in police work Wednesday morning when he helped nab a man suspected of assault.
Joe Landro, a Transport Workers Union Local 100 official, chased and tackled hefty six-foot, 205-pound Terrell Holley, 29, after Holley allegedly slammed a woman’s face into the door of a Chase Bank in downtown Brooklyn around 11 a.m. “I thought of my wife, my mother, my daughter,” Landro said. “Any guy who does that is a coward.”
Landro, 48, of Staten Island, tailed the emotionally disturbed suspect after hearing a witness yell, “Stop that man.” He told cops on the street about the assault, prompting Holley to flee. Landro caught up with Holley at Atlantic Avenue and pulled him to the ground, holding him there with the help of another bystander until police could put cuffs on him.
Nice work, Joe!