Body camera video shows New Jersey traffic police officers saving a three-year-old child who was choking.
The New Jersey Transit Police posted the video on social media this Tuesday (30), explaining that the images are from the night of April 16, at the Trenton station.
See the moment the child is saved:
NJ Transit Police perform life-saving CPR to save choking children.
Trenton, NJ – New Jersey Transit Police officers used life-saving skills to save the life of a choking 3-year-old.
On Tuesday, April 16, at 9:44 pm, NJTPD officers at Trenton Station pic.twitter.com/Nt9zbjblnZ
— NJ TRANSIT POLICE (@NJTransitPolice) April 30, 2024
Agents responded to a call for help from a bus of migrants arriving from Texas, according to authorities. Passengers were disembarking from the private vehicle and were supposed to catch a train to New York City.
When police arrived, they saw the child being removed from the bus and noticed that she was suffocating. However, first aid procedures did not remove the obstruction.
The video begins with a passenger shouting for help in Spanish and others asking for an ambulance to take the child to the hospital.
One of the police officers can be heard saying that the child “is turning blue”.
The recording then shows Officer Geoghegan carrying the minor to a patrol car and heading toward a nearby hospital with emergency lights and sirens on.
While Geoghegan is driving, another officer, identified as Sergeant Filandro, is in the passenger seat with the child on his lap, performing chest compressions.
“Stay with me, okay?” says one of the agents to the child.
As they exited the highway toward the hospital, the child's obstruction appeared to have been removed. “He's moving! Here we go, friend”, highlights a police officer.
They then exit the police vehicle at a hospital.
“He’s breathing again… we just caught him, got whatever it was out, he’s moving.”
The department says it salutes each officer involved in the rescue.
*with information from Joe Brandt of WCBS, an affiliate network of CNN
Source: CNN Brasil
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