Dash Cam Video: Kalamazoo officer saves choking woman

[03trubluGT]

Dash Cam Video: Kalamazoo officer saves choking woman

See video in link:

http://fox17online.com/2014/08/12/dash-cam-video-kalamazoo-officer-saves-choking-woman/

KALAMAZOO, Mich. –Kalamazoo Public Safety Officer Jason Gates is being hailed a hero after saving the life of a driver who was choking.

It all unfolded around 11:20 a.m. Saturday August 9, when Officer Gates pulled a woman over for a red light violation in the 4100 block of S. Burdick Street. Officer Gates says at first he thought she was trying to get out of a ticket but he quickly realized the woman was in serious respiratory distress.

Dash cam video from the incident shows Officer Gates asking the woman if she was okay, and when he realizes she’s in trouble, he administers a couple of back blows. When that doesn’t work, you can see Gates quickly pull the woman from the car and administer the Heimlich maneuver.

Within seconds, the food was dislodged. Officer Gates says he has never used the Heimlich before in his nine year police career, but says he is just glad she is OK.

“I’m just glad that I was there and it worked.”

In the video you can see the woman immediately begin to cry and hug Officer Gates, thanking him, something Gates says he didn’t expect.

The woman did not get a ticket.


I can't believe that he didn't write her a ticket!

[Forever_frost]

But did he kill her dog?

So he assaulted the woman multiple times, sexually molested her, illegally removed her from her vehicle without suspicion of a crime and then encouraged sexual misconduct during a traffic stop? (Sorry, had to. Even I see when props are required.)

[Ruffdaddy]

Badass! Now to get the other 99% on the right track

[03trubluGT]

Badass! Now to get the other 99% on the right track

That was just the good deed for the day.

The body cam didn't catch all the civil rights violations and police brutality!

[D. Lil]

FTP!!!!!!!

Haha jk.

That was awesome! Atta boy!

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Yes lets all give the guy a big Hip Hip Hooray! for doing his fucking job! Its a sad fucking time that we live in when the good deeds are outweighed by oppression committed by the very people that are supposed to be protecting us.

[Chili]

Yes lets all give the guy a big Hip Hip Hooray! for doing his fucking job! Its a sad fucking time that we live in when the good deeds are outweighed by oppression committed by the very people that are supposed to be protecting us.

A bit of a stretch.. Cops are not paramedics. Granted, any reasonable person should be willing to help, but I don't know that I would consider that a part of an LEO's job.