Cop Saves Choking Woman During Traffic Stop [VIDEO]

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“What started as a routine traffic stop on Saturday turned out to be a life-saving moment for one Michigan woman.

At the time the unidentified driver was pulled over, she was choking. And the officer who stopped her saved her life in a scene caught on his dashcam, which you can see above.

“For the first second or so I thought she might be trying to just get out of a ticket and then I realized she was in legitimate respiratory distress, so I tried to dislodge the item from her throat by just hitting her on the back,” Officer Jason Gates said at a press conference, according to MLive.com.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Ed Mazza / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/cop-saves-choking-woman_n_5677448.html

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