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A city police officer saved a distraught man from falling to his death from an eighth floor apartment Sunday morning. The officer’s body camera was recording as the man dangled from a window in the Trent Center high-rise apartments on Greenwood Avenue. The rookie officer, Freddy Jimenez, was there because the man’s wife had just died of natural causes, police said. During routine police work, the distraught man went to another room and climbed out of a window and was hanging by his fingertips. The apartments do not have balconies. When Jimenez entered the room, all that is visible is the man’s knuckles. The man is heard saying to himself, in distress, “Do it, do it, do it.” Jimenez grabs for the man, calls for backup – he was the only officer in the apartment – and starts talking to him.
“Sir, please don’t! Sir hang on!’ Jimenez says. “I am here to help you – please!”
The man then asks the officer to grab his leg and says, “I don’t want to die.”
“I don’t want you to die,” Jimenez responds.
“I got you, I got your leg,” Jimenez says as he struggles to haul the man inside.
Jimenez then collapses to the floor with the man and reports on his radio the man is safe – all before backup arrives. A police spokesman said Jimenez’s heroic actions speak for themselves on the video, which the department made public Tuesday after news spread among officers about how dramatic it was. Jimenez graduated from the police academy in October 2016.
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He have had a little understanding in the end.
This officer has a kind voice.
Awesome job from a Trenton Officer. Finally something good comes out of Trenton, I don't even remember this making the local paper, I could be wrong though.
badass!
Brings a tear to my eye.. this is humanity THIS is serving and protecting..cops ‘choose’ this line of work it’s dangerous plain and simple.
Why does his voice remind me of Tony the Italian Mobster??
Jesus
Ironic
Mental patient. I dont mean that in a bad way, but I think he is.
For once… im glad to say im from Trenton, New Jersey.
If that were a black man the cop would have sat back and watched the show
Awesome job Freddy Jimenez!
Fuckin hero
James Kingston who?
Hero 💙✌
Props, Officer Jimenez!
Respect the men and women in uniform
There's a touching docu on the few, very few, jumpers who survived going off the Golden Gate Bridge Of the 19 survivors they all shared the same thing, the instant they let go they were sorry and wanted to grab back on. They didn't want to die. The gentleman was 17 when he jumped and I think he was diagnosed bi-polar and is in treatment and will always be so. He is married now with children, and still remembers and is so grateful for his life. He also actively is working to help people. Watch "I jumped off the golden gate bridge".
Love this cop!
God bless him
Good work saving his life! But you won't see this on the news, only videos of officers shooting "innocent" black people.
isnt that fire rescue's job? They have harnesses and proper equipment.
Long live to US cops
This officer deserves a medal!
Good Job 🙂
Fantastic job
you can really tell that the officer genuinely cared about the mans life
What a great officer. God bless him.
I feel like many people who attempt suicide realize that split second, just before they are about to die ', that they made the wrong decision and want to live, but for many of them it's too late and there's no turning back.
We need more black ppl like this