A Vermont state trooper plunged into a frigid pond and pulled out an 8-year-old girl who had fallen through the ice while playing with siblings. The child survived and fully recovered after a brief hospital stay.
The girl and her younger sister fell through the thin ice on the pond on private property in the town of Cambridge on Dec. 17, state police said in a news release Friday. The 80-year-old homeowner was able to pull the younger girl to shore but couldn’t reach the older girl, so called 911, officials said.
Trooper Michelle Archer was nearby and arrived less than five minutes later, police said. She pulled a rope and flotation device from her cruiser, ran to the pond and swam to the girl, according to body camera video released by state police. She swam back to shore with the girl, and a second trooper who arrived as she was bringing her out of the water carried the child to a waiting ambulance.
The girl was taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington for treatment of injuries that at first were thought to be life-threatening, police said. She has made a complete recovery and returned home.
I’m usually pretty hard on LE culture in America in particular. But there are people amidst these positions who believe in the position as a community leader. They grew up hoping to be a hero no differently than firefighters or nurses protecting people. Sure there are many attracted to the position as a source of power over others, but I’m very hesitant to use such blanket generalizations.
This officer jumped in when she didn’t have to. She saved a child in very dangerous conditions. She is a cop. But she is not a bastard.
Righties / racists possess the same logical fallacy when casting disgust towards people of color.
It’s just pro-cop propaganda. Yes, cops do good things, but there are regular “see? This cop did something heroic!” reports in the media, which ignores the many other times cops stomped on people of color, maybe even the same cops who were heroic on one occasion. How many thousands of stories like that has the AP ignored in favor of this one?
Cops don’t get a pass until they actually start trying to fix their problems rather than cover them up and attempt to attack those bringing them to light. The organization as a whole is corrupt and broken, and until that changes nobody working for the organization deserves anything but contempt, no matter if they occasionally decide to not be bastards or not.
Copaganda.
How about we can praise a cop while hating cops. I usually say I like individual persons, but hate people. Same idea.