{"id":387813,"date":"2026-09-02T02:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387813\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T02:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:36:10","slug":"miami-beach-officers-honored-for-helping-save-man-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387813\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach officers honored for helping save man in crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 5:42 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 Miami Beach police officers are being honored after helping a man experiencing a crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/01\/honran-a-agentes-de-miami-beach-por-ayudar-a-poner-a-salvo-a-hombre-en-crisis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/01\/honran-a-agentes-de-miami-beach-por-ayudar-a-poner-a-salvo-a-hombre-en-crisis\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident occurred at a shopping plaza near Fifth Street and Lenox Avenue on Aug. 23. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police body camera video shows a man standing on a ledge, pacing back and forth while on a cellphone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The man told officers he had never been arrested before or had a speeding ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Negotiations with officers lasted about four hours before they had a window to pull him from the edge of the building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami Beach Police Department Chief Wayne Jones praised the officers for their actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur negotiators demonstrated extraordinary patience, compassion and professionalism,\u201d said Jones. \u201cThey refused to give up on this individual, and because of their actions, he was brought to safety unharmed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones added that specialized training helped the officers put an end to the crisis, and that no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Bridgette Matter\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/2dda0f91-39c8-479e-9e.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Bridgette Matter<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Bridgette Matter joined the Local 10 News team as a reporter in July 2021. Before moving to South Florida, she began her career in South Bend, Indiana and spent six years in Jacksonville as a reporter and weekend anchor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 5:42 PM Updated:\u00a0September 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Miami Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-387813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}