{"id":292309,"date":"2026-07-10T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292309\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:14:09","slug":"heroic-police-officers-scale-brooklyn-bridge-to-rescue-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292309\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic police officers scale Brooklyn Bridge to rescue woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A heroic police officer scaled <a data-ylk=\"slk:Brooklyn Bridge;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/brooklyn-bridge\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Bridge<\/a> to coax down a woman who was threatening to jump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bodycam footage shared by the New York Police Department (NYPD) shows an officer speaking to a woman who was perched above the East River on Wednesday (8 July).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I just wanna talk,&#8221; he told the woman, who remained on the steel cable for more than an hour as officers tried to get her down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a permanent solution to a temporary problem, it really is,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers were later able to help the woman off the bridge. She was then taken to a local hospital for observation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you are experiencing feelings of distress, or are struggling to cope, you can speak to the Samaritans, in confidence, on 116 123 (UK and ROI) or visit the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Samaritans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Samaritans<\/a> website to find details of your nearest branch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you are based in the USA, and you or someone you know needs mental health assistance right now, call or text 988, or visit <a data-ylk=\"slk:988lifeline.org;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"http:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">988lifeline.org<\/a> to access online chat from the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. This is a free, confidential crisis hotline that is available to everyone 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heroic police officer scaled Brooklyn Bridge to coax down a woman who was threatening to jump. Bodycam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,11198,100,99,9,24,15454,63,111639,23394,111638],"class_list":["post-292309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-police-department","tag-nyc","tag-permanent-solution","tag-police-officer","tag-steel-cable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}