As one Florida police officer was driving home from a hard day at work, he didn’t know he would be tested in ways he had never previously experienced.
When a three-month-old baby’s life was in jeopardy, they say that a police officer is never off duty, and that statement rang true when Deputy Jeremy Nix saw a woman in distress who was flagging him down on a highway.
Nickel Cromwell was in her car when she noticed her three-month-old son was having difficulty breathing, and she saw Deputy Nix stopped at the intersection, not far from her vehicle. Cromwell began to frantically wave her arms at the Ocala, Florida Deputy, hoping to get his attention.
The K-9 Deputy, who was returning home after his shift, pulled his car behind the distraught woman’s vehicle and discovered a baby who was barely breathing. According to CBS News, the incident was all caught on dashcam video from Deputy Nix’s cruiser.
He was flagged down by a distressed mother at an intersection and sprang into help the baby. ‘You can tell he’s completely lifeless,’ Deputy Nix told WKMG TV. ‘She just hands him to me, and the first words out of her mouth were……Read Full Story Here……….
