Video: Retired officer dies after being struck leading funeral procession

[Anthony]

• A retired Forest Park Police officer has died after being struck by a vehicle while leading a funeral procession on a motorcycle over the weekend, officials announced early Monday. George Brooks was 63. He was with Forest Park police 25 years before retiring in 2005.Brooks was hit about 1:30 p.m. Saturday on West Liberty Street near the intersection of Linn Street. A funeral procession was leaving from St. Mary's church in Over-The-Rhine and was heading to Spring Grove Cemetery.He was driving a 1998 BMW motorcycle west on West Liberty Street when a 1995 Oldsmobile 88 struck him as the Oldsmobile driver, Anton Palmer, 30, turned onto West Liberty Street from Lockhurst Lane.

 

[mairj23]

A very unfortunate situation here. Funerals can be very dangerous as people doesn't seem to respect what's going on. Penalties should be enforced for these kind of things.