The annual 5K honoring Army Sgt. Michael Ollis started in 2017. J.C. Rice His battlefield bravery was so heroic that the city named a Staten Island Ferry boat after him. But it wasn't enough for Mayor de Blasio to loosen up on his coronavirus rules. The parents of Army Sgt. Michael Ollis, the 24-year-old Staten Islander killed in Afghanistan in 2013 as he shielded a wounded Polish soldier from an insurgent suicide bomber's blast, say they received a de facto denial this week on a permit for the annual 5k run that honors their hometown hero son.

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