{"id":361082,"date":"2026-09-30T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361082\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:43:00","slug":"nypd-officer-saves-choking-child-in-the-bronx-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361082\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD officer saves choking child in the Bronx: see it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 Video footage of police officers saving a choking child in the Bronx was released by the NYPD on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident happened on Saturday at around 2:13 p.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Stay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage;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:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Stay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The officers were flagged down from their police cruiser, and they found the mother in the video frantically crying while carrying her child.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The video showed one of the officers performing the Heimlich maneuver on the choking child. The child was placed on the officer&#8217;s forearm, where he then started patting the child&#8217;s back several times. Eventually, the child started crying, indicating they were breathing again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EMTs arrived shortly after and brought the child to a local hospital, according to the police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Andrew Cruz is a digital content producer. A native New Yorker, he joined PIX11 in 2009 as a weather producer. More of his work can be found <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;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:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/andrew-cruz\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;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:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 Video footage of police officers saving a choking child in the Bronx was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,134163,9,24,63,103,17868,241,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-361082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-choking-child","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-cruiser","tag-police-officers","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361082","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=361082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}