cop saves a life

[Liberal_in_LA]

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/13/choking-motorist-helped/13994685/


Traffic stop turns into rescue from choking



Gates asked if she were OK, according to a Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety statement. Kalamazoo is a city of about 75,000 people 150 miles west of Detroit.

When the woman, whose name was not released, couldn't respond, he fleetingly thought that she might be trying to get out of a ticket but then realized that she might be choking. So he hit her on the back a couple of times in the encounter of less than a minute.

When that didn't work, Gates pulled the woman out of the driver's seat and used the Heimlich maneuver to give three thrusts to her abdomen, Capt. Jim Mallery said.

A piece of sausage and biscuit dislodged, and the woman threw herself into Gates' arms, thanking him for saving her life.

[atreides1]

1. There's an old saying!

'It takes 100 good deeds to make up for 1 screw up'...that means the police still have much more to do, as long as they stop killing unarmed black men or anyone else who is unarmed!

[tularetom]

3. How many "attaboys" does it take to make up for one "oh shit"?

Problem is the 99 percent good cops don't do enough to weed out the one percent sadistic corrupt bullies.

[djean111]

2. That's fantastic!

Recent events, however, have me wondering what he would have done if the driver was a black male who did not respond to him, instead of a white woman. I feel bad about that, but there it is.
No, I don't think police are all bad, but now I feel I just need to avoid them when possible.

[CBGLuthier]

4. Sorry, but given the events of late all I can think is is she were black

the cop would have shot her for acting funny like she was on drugs and attempting to attack him while she choked.

[uponit7771]

5. She's not black...

[zipplewrath]

6. Slightly different police department

Dunno if it is still true, but back in the late '70 or early '80s, the Kazoo police department was restructured to be combined with the fire department. I think they called it the "department of public safety" or some such thing. They even turned fire stations into locations out of which individual police officers could work. It was done as a cost savings measure. But to some extent there is a real possibility of making an impact on the militarization of the police forces that we've seen. It is very possible that this department hasn't been sucked into the same vortex of "combat mentality" that many others have. A little more "protect and serve" and a little less "war on <fear of the day>".