Police Officers Save Choking Baby Amidst A Busy Intersection

Officers Oklander and Sidders go into action after stopping to help a disabled motorist and quickly realizing a young two-month-old baby had been in trouble. The whole action then turns into a life-saving effort. Incredible police body cam video captures the moments Shaker Heights police officers saved a baby who was choking in a car parked in the middle of a busy intersection.Show more

The baby begins to choke while riding in the back seat. Her mom knows she has to get to her daughter quickly, so she stops the car in the middle of the street. She seems kind of frantic and doesn’t really know what to do. The baby starts choking on her milk which is coming out of her nose so she puts the hazards on and gets out of the car and sprints to the back seat to try and help her baby. And it is as if by hand of God two police officers come out of nowhere and help her with the back thrusts for her to breathe. It is a real miracle that the two Shaker Heights police officers just appear out of the blue right at the moment when the baby stops breathing.

One of the officers takes the child and places her face down over his forearm, performing a version of the Heimlich maneuver commonly used for infants. After several swift blows to the baby’s back, the officers hear a cough. I can hear air moving,” the officer says. “She’s moving air. Okay, she’s breathing.” Then they pass the baby to the mother, who uses a nasal aspirator on the child.

What an amazing job! Thank God for them because, if it wasn't for them, the mom would be probably still be out there doing CPR on her child. And is s a sigh of relief for the officers and for the mother, who knows how lucky she is.