10 Comments on Hero Cop Resuscitates Baby After Pulling Over Speeding Car
Nice to start the day with a good story.
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God bless and reward this young man who did some real hero stuff in a very difficult situation. Police can save as well as slay, and this one proves it. What he did isn’t what he primarily trained for and not everyone could have done it, training or no, so I hope they do everything they can to retain him, some things you can’t learn at the Police Academy.
And may the Lord bless and comfort all of those involved, and may that child grow up healthy and strong in body and the Lord, and may that child know that the Lord put that officer there to save him for a reason, and may that child fulfill the purpose the Lord sets before him to honor that memory.
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Evil white male takes woman’s baby and beats it. Baby survives in spite of him. OR, White police officer saves life of black child. It depends on who is doing the reporting.
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There is a lot to unpack here, though.
We have had discussions in this forum about busting for the hospital and damned be the man who tries to stop you. I can certainly understand that impulse, the more so since I now live in a fairly rural area where it takes 20 minutes just to get an ambulance to my house, and that on a GOOD day. I also understand fear and panic make it very difficult to think clearly. I too know what it’s like to have to save your child’s life at all cost, and damned be the man who tries to stop you indeed. Yes, I get it, MUCH more than I ever wanted to. I have revised my opinions, slightly, from when this was written, but the theme that at some point 911 HAS to know what you’re doing for the safety of EVERYONE remains.
But keep in mind the perils of this situation. The police have no idea what you’re doing, nor do your fellow motorists, nor do you yourself in many ways. YOU know it’s an emergency, but no one else does. Are YOU going to stop for that traffic light, or even NOTICE it? Maybe, maybe NOT. If not, there’s a good chance you will kill yourself, everyone in your car including the baby, and some other folks who didn’t know what you were doing and met you all of the sudden in the middle.
Not a good thing.
…everything is situational, I’ve said that many times. In THIS situation, there were TWO adults in the car along with a lap baby. Everyone has cell phones now. Comms should have been established to 911, so the police would have known what was going on, the hospital could have known what to expect, and she could have been intercepted or even escorted with some increased degree of safety without delaying care.
If your car is crunched in an intersection, your dying baby’s care WILL be delayed while whatever lucky guy rips what’s left of your windshield out and tries to determine who even is in there, let alone how many or what their specific problems may be. And you may not be around to answer that question.
You do what you gotta do, but you need to keep your head, or everyone may end up losing THEIRS.
…and as for the officer, talk about a high stress situation! He thinks to address ONE thing then suddenly it’s ANOTHER, there’s a dying baby and people screaming at him ABOUT the dying baby, traffic snarling all around all the players, and HE has to make a snap life-and-death decision he was in NO WAY anticipating about what to do NEXT.
And yes, he had training, but training for THIS was secondary to his police training and he probably wasn’t particuarly focused on that aspect of it when he took the job. I’ve seen grown, trained men become useless in the face of less. The training is good but, believe me, you have to overcome your own fear to be able to access it.
In a situation where everyone is running around screaming and crying and yelling at cross-purposes, you are NOT going to help the situation by ALSO running around screaming and crying and yelling at cross-purposes. You can get mad or sad or whatever LATER, right NOW is the time to shove all that down and focus on the main issue at hand, in this case a dying infant. Everything else is secondary, and most folk’s advice is not going to be helpful or indeed coherent.
And it being a baby amps everything up to 11. You haven’t SEEN upset until you’ve seen dying baby upset.
There’s this phenominon that is valitable because it is repeatable that is known colliqually as the “Oh Shit” run. The cop shows up and goes “OH, SHIT!”. The first responder shows up and goes “OH, SHIT!”. The truck company shows up and goes “OH, SHIT!”. The ambulance does the same, as does the triage nurse, the team of doctors, etc., and ideally you say “OH, SHIT!”, and, having got that out of your system, you then park your feelings in some backwater brain node for review later and deal with the job at hand.
And that’s what THIS was. An “Oh, shit” run. And he did a BEAUTIFUL job of dealing with it that ended up with the best possible outcome. I cannot praise that young man enough, and I cannot praise the Lord that gave him his skill, his compassion, his coolness, and his ability to learn and overcome and be able to deal with the situation or ANY situation at ALL, to HIM always be the glory.
…and a side note on upset parents. You know that part where the officer was talking about the adults being disoriented and inconsolable?
True DAT.
And you DO have to deal with that aspect both so you can help the CHILD, and ALSO to help the ADULTS from becoming completely unhinged.
And with a baby, this can go to some unpleasant places.
…I don’t know what the kids in the field do now, but in the day there were specific protocols for dealing with what was then called SIDS or “crib death”. The thing about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is that it’s DEATH, and not recoverable. The baby passes for one of a variety of reasons sometime overnight (yes, this DID happen even pre-Vaxxx), and Mom finds this cold, stiff corpse in the crib when she opens the nursery curtains to let the sun shine in, perhaps while cooing to the unknowingly deceased about how nice it was they slept through the night.
Then she picks it up.
…yeahh.
You get there, and the baby is DEAD. Unquestionably, inarguably, stiff as a board, cold as a mackeral, and lividity for days. DEAD. An ex-human infant, mother screaming like a ruptured duck and flopping it around like a Chatty Cathy doll. What to do?
…well, the protocols said you HAVE to try to rescuitate anyway.
For the mom’s sake, not for the kid’s.
Because, being dead, the kid is not coming back.
And having initiated knowingly useless CPR that, under other circumstances would be considered abuse of a corpse, you are requied by protocol to continue it to the hospital, until an MD formally declares the obvious.
At that point, Mom is the hospital’s problem. One they have quite a bit of experience with.
Unfortunately.
…So the officer did what he had to do. God bless him for it, and God bless that family. You never give up, and he was true to that spirit. May he stand as an inspriation to others, and may all concerned be blessed with no further issues for as long as the Lord has planned for them.
But may all learn from example too that someone has to be the adult in these situations, and that’s not always easy. So consider the possiblity at all times and keep in mind that no one is GUARENTEED a run time, and even the very youngest among us may be in crisis at any time. Steel yourself to all possibilites NOW, then you may be better equipped to deal with it when the crisis comes.
And one will, sooner or later.
It’s only a matter of time.
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I’m no expert, but the mother looks to have not birthed the second twin yet.
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How she get her big ass booty in a Camaro in the first place?
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The kid was gagging at those ugly wheels on the car.
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Papa P AT 10:09 AM
“I’m no expert, but the mother looks to have not birthed the second twin yet.”
YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW IF THAT’S A WOMAN!!! YOU’RE NO BIOLOGIST!!!
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The big story here is that 5 people actually had time to read SNS post.
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Wow. That officer is outstanding! He kept his cool and was very composed in an extremely chaotic situation. Dealing with hoodrats or the public in general takes a very patient, intuitive, stable person.
This officer definitely found the right career. He probably had some EMT training or just paid more attention when training for emergencies in the police academy.
This is the type of police officer every police department needs a thousand times over.
Nice to start the day with a good story.
God bless and reward this young man who did some real hero stuff in a very difficult situation. Police can save as well as slay, and this one proves it. What he did isn’t what he primarily trained for and not everyone could have done it, training or no, so I hope they do everything they can to retain him, some things you can’t learn at the Police Academy.
And may the Lord bless and comfort all of those involved, and may that child grow up healthy and strong in body and the Lord, and may that child know that the Lord put that officer there to save him for a reason, and may that child fulfill the purpose the Lord sets before him to honor that memory.
Evil white male takes woman’s baby and beats it. Baby survives in spite of him. OR, White police officer saves life of black child. It depends on who is doing the reporting.
There is a lot to unpack here, though.
We have had discussions in this forum about busting for the hospital and damned be the man who tries to stop you. I can certainly understand that impulse, the more so since I now live in a fairly rural area where it takes 20 minutes just to get an ambulance to my house, and that on a GOOD day. I also understand fear and panic make it very difficult to think clearly. I too know what it’s like to have to save your child’s life at all cost, and damned be the man who tries to stop you indeed. Yes, I get it, MUCH more than I ever wanted to. I have revised my opinions, slightly, from when this was written, but the theme that at some point 911 HAS to know what you’re doing for the safety of EVERYONE remains.
https://iotwreport.com/nurses-bail-out-dad-arrested-after-rushing-his-choking-1-year-old-daughter-to-the-hospital/
But keep in mind the perils of this situation. The police have no idea what you’re doing, nor do your fellow motorists, nor do you yourself in many ways. YOU know it’s an emergency, but no one else does. Are YOU going to stop for that traffic light, or even NOTICE it? Maybe, maybe NOT. If not, there’s a good chance you will kill yourself, everyone in your car including the baby, and some other folks who didn’t know what you were doing and met you all of the sudden in the middle.
Not a good thing.
…everything is situational, I’ve said that many times. In THIS situation, there were TWO adults in the car along with a lap baby. Everyone has cell phones now. Comms should have been established to 911, so the police would have known what was going on, the hospital could have known what to expect, and she could have been intercepted or even escorted with some increased degree of safety without delaying care.
If your car is crunched in an intersection, your dying baby’s care WILL be delayed while whatever lucky guy rips what’s left of your windshield out and tries to determine who even is in there, let alone how many or what their specific problems may be. And you may not be around to answer that question.
You do what you gotta do, but you need to keep your head, or everyone may end up losing THEIRS.
…and as for the officer, talk about a high stress situation! He thinks to address ONE thing then suddenly it’s ANOTHER, there’s a dying baby and people screaming at him ABOUT the dying baby, traffic snarling all around all the players, and HE has to make a snap life-and-death decision he was in NO WAY anticipating about what to do NEXT.
And yes, he had training, but training for THIS was secondary to his police training and he probably wasn’t particuarly focused on that aspect of it when he took the job. I’ve seen grown, trained men become useless in the face of less. The training is good but, believe me, you have to overcome your own fear to be able to access it.
In a situation where everyone is running around screaming and crying and yelling at cross-purposes, you are NOT going to help the situation by ALSO running around screaming and crying and yelling at cross-purposes. You can get mad or sad or whatever LATER, right NOW is the time to shove all that down and focus on the main issue at hand, in this case a dying infant. Everything else is secondary, and most folk’s advice is not going to be helpful or indeed coherent.
And it being a baby amps everything up to 11. You haven’t SEEN upset until you’ve seen dying baby upset.
There’s this phenominon that is valitable because it is repeatable that is known colliqually as the “Oh Shit” run. The cop shows up and goes “OH, SHIT!”. The first responder shows up and goes “OH, SHIT!”. The truck company shows up and goes “OH, SHIT!”. The ambulance does the same, as does the triage nurse, the team of doctors, etc., and ideally you say “OH, SHIT!”, and, having got that out of your system, you then park your feelings in some backwater brain node for review later and deal with the job at hand.
And that’s what THIS was. An “Oh, shit” run. And he did a BEAUTIFUL job of dealing with it that ended up with the best possible outcome. I cannot praise that young man enough, and I cannot praise the Lord that gave him his skill, his compassion, his coolness, and his ability to learn and overcome and be able to deal with the situation or ANY situation at ALL, to HIM always be the glory.
…and a side note on upset parents. You know that part where the officer was talking about the adults being disoriented and inconsolable?
True DAT.
And you DO have to deal with that aspect both so you can help the CHILD, and ALSO to help the ADULTS from becoming completely unhinged.
And with a baby, this can go to some unpleasant places.
…I don’t know what the kids in the field do now, but in the day there were specific protocols for dealing with what was then called SIDS or “crib death”. The thing about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is that it’s DEATH, and not recoverable. The baby passes for one of a variety of reasons sometime overnight (yes, this DID happen even pre-Vaxxx), and Mom finds this cold, stiff corpse in the crib when she opens the nursery curtains to let the sun shine in, perhaps while cooing to the unknowingly deceased about how nice it was they slept through the night.
Then she picks it up.
…yeahh.
You get there, and the baby is DEAD. Unquestionably, inarguably, stiff as a board, cold as a mackeral, and lividity for days. DEAD. An ex-human infant, mother screaming like a ruptured duck and flopping it around like a Chatty Cathy doll. What to do?
…well, the protocols said you HAVE to try to rescuitate anyway.
For the mom’s sake, not for the kid’s.
Because, being dead, the kid is not coming back.
And having initiated knowingly useless CPR that, under other circumstances would be considered abuse of a corpse, you are requied by protocol to continue it to the hospital, until an MD formally declares the obvious.
At that point, Mom is the hospital’s problem. One they have quite a bit of experience with.
Unfortunately.
…So the officer did what he had to do. God bless him for it, and God bless that family. You never give up, and he was true to that spirit. May he stand as an inspriation to others, and may all concerned be blessed with no further issues for as long as the Lord has planned for them.
But may all learn from example too that someone has to be the adult in these situations, and that’s not always easy. So consider the possiblity at all times and keep in mind that no one is GUARENTEED a run time, and even the very youngest among us may be in crisis at any time. Steel yourself to all possibilites NOW, then you may be better equipped to deal with it when the crisis comes.
And one will, sooner or later.
It’s only a matter of time.
I’m no expert, but the mother looks to have not birthed the second twin yet.
How she get her big ass booty in a Camaro in the first place?
The kid was gagging at those ugly wheels on the car.
Papa P AT 10:09 AM
“I’m no expert, but the mother looks to have not birthed the second twin yet.”
YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW IF THAT’S A WOMAN!!! YOU’RE NO BIOLOGIST!!!
The big story here is that 5 people actually had time to read SNS post.
Wow. That officer is outstanding! He kept his cool and was very composed in an extremely chaotic situation. Dealing with hoodrats or the public in general takes a very patient, intuitive, stable person.
This officer definitely found the right career. He probably had some EMT training or just paid more attention when training for emergencies in the police academy.
This is the type of police officer every police department needs a thousand times over.