POLICE WEEK 2015
‘Remembering our brother Tommy’
■ BY NEIL VISTA
Ten years after Atlantic City Police Officer Thomas McMeekin Jr. was
killed when he was struck by a bus while directing traffic, fellow law
enforcement officers returned to the scene to set out on their trek to
Washington D.C. for the annual Police Unity Tour.
On May 10, McMeekin’s friends, family members and ACPD colleagues congregated at the scene of his accident at Chelsea and Atlantic
Avenues to remember the fallen officer and to send off the nine Unity
Tour riders – including Thomas’ brother, Atlantic City Firefighter Andrew
McMeekin – southbound to the National Law Enforcement Officers
Memorial, where the officer’s name is forever inscribed on a panel of the
Memorial Wall.
As the riders stood next to their bicycles, helmets on and ready to ride,
the dozens in attendance hung their heads in visible sadness as Taps was
played in memory of McMeekin.
“We are very grateful for you to come here and visit us on your trip
south to the nation’s capitol, and we are most appreciative of you to
remember our brother Tommy and invoke his sprit and his enjoyment
of bicycle riding on the tenth year of the anniversary of his passing,”
Atlantic City Depu