Of corpse it's OK
Mike: City was right to grab 9/11 cop's bodyBy LORENA MONGELLI, REBECCA ROSENBERG and CHUCK BENNETT
Last Updated: 10:09 AM, March 31, 2011
Posted: 2:06 AM, March 31, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg insisted yesterday that city morgue workers had every right to seize the body of an NYPD cop from a funeral home and expunge references to 9/11 toxins from his death certificate."The bottom line is that if the law requires, for nonnatural causes, to do an investigation, that's what it's going to be . . . I'm sorry that anybody felt upset about it," Bloomberg said.
Relatives of cancer-stricken retired Officer George Wong held a belated funeral yesterday, saying they still hadn't heard directly from city officials apologizing for having plucked the officer's body from the Ng Fook funeral home Monday night.
FINAL RESPECTS: Officers yesterday carry the casket of 9/11 hero cop George Wong. Right, how The Post broke the story of city morgue workers grabbing Wong's body from a funeral home for re-examination.
"I was really upset.
They took the body again to cut it or whatever," Wong's mother, Mei Sin Wong, 73, said through an interpreter. "It's not respectful for the Chinese people."
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