THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — Video footage of police officers saving a choking child in the Bronx was released by the NYPD on Tuesday.
The incident happened on Saturday at around 2:13 p.m., according to the NYPD.
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The officers were flagged down from their police cruiser, and they found the mother in the video frantically crying while carrying her child.
The video showed one of the officers performing the Heimlich maneuver on the choking child. The child was placed on the officer’s forearm, where he then started patting the child’s back several times. Eventually, the child started crying, indicating they were breathing again.
EMTs arrived shortly after and brought the child to a local hospital, according to the police.
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