Retired NYPD cops wrestle arsonist trying to torch MLK childhood home in Atlanta

Axel Dodson and his older brother Kenneth haven’t been in their NYPD blues in more than a quarter century — but old habits die hard. So when they saw a commotion brewing while vacationing with their mother in Atlanta, Ga., the retired police officers immediately took action, chasing down a woman who had tried to torch the childhood home of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I’m glad that we were all there,” Axel Dodson, 45, told the Daily News at NYPD headquarters in lower Manhattan Saturday as...