Mom, Girls Jump From Burning Home Into Cops' Arms

[Omaha Steve]

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Source: ABC News-AP

CAMDEN, N.J.

Several police officers formed a human net to catch a woman and her two young daughters as they jumped from their burning home in southern New Jersey.

Camden County police said the fire on Atlantic Avenue in Camden was reported around 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, when residents notified two officers who happened to be on patrol in the area. They told them the woman and her children, ages 4 and 7, were trapped on the home's second floor.

Two other police officers soon arrived at the home, and all four gained entry by kicking open the front door. They tried to find the family, but thick smoke and heavy flames hampered their efforts.

One officer collapsed and was helped out of the home as another officer shouted for the mother to take her children to a rear window, police said.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mom-girls-jump-burning-home-cops-arms-27950879

[George II]

1. THIS is what our rank and file police officers do for a living...we should hear more about....

....these types of incidents instead of only hearing about the outliers.

[ret5hd]

7. Why don't these "rank and file" officers help us...

ALL clean out the trash?

Why don't they?
Why is that?

What part of "If you ain't part of the solution, you're part of the problem" don't you and they GET???

Apologists got no answers.

[ncjustice80]

8. Because they think they can put on a show and get some subserves to post this tripe on our message

Boards and social media, hoping people will stop thinking that theyre really just a bunch trigger happy racist bullies.

[GGJohn]

9. Oh bullshit, most cops are good cops.

BTW, still think that gun was planted at the Antonio Martin shooting?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Your post was alerted on, and here are the results:

I was Juror #3.

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[GGJohn]

12. Thanks CaliforniaPeggy.

Looks like someone got a 24 hour time out from alerting.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Glad I could help!

How can you tell about the time out?

[GGJohn]

14. If an alert is ruled 0-7 to leave, the alerter loses their alerting privileges for 24 hours per the

Admins.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Thanks! I had forgotten that little fact. Cool. n/t

[Skittles]

21. that one needs more than just a 24 hour timeout

good riddance to them!!!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

29. Put on a show?

Forget it, you really aren't even worth a response.

[840high]

39. Total BS

[George II]

10. Why? Because a huge majority of the good police officers never come in contact...

...with the bad ones.

In fact, I'd be willing to bet that many bad cops only get a chance to show their bad side only once. Very few bad cops, even fewer "repeat" offenders.

Can anyone here actually quantify the number of "bad" cops in NYC out of the roughly 35,000 police officers?

[JonLP24]

37. Mollen Commission

found that the most troubling aspect wasn't the corruption but the unwillingness from the department to police itself. Then there was the cop from 2013 who blew the whistle to target young black males for stop and frisk claims he was also called a rat and ostracized within the department. Police Chief Magazine also has an excellent series on "noble cause corruption".

[JI7]

17. why ? it's their fucking job . when there are stories about teachers having sex with students

do people respond by saying there are many other teachers who do good things while protecting the teacher who had sex with students from losing their job ?

[George II]

18. "it's their fucking job" - that's pretty much what I said, thanks

[JI7]

19. you included the "instead of" the other stuff which was dismissive

you don't see teachers react to teachers who have sex with students by protecting those teaachers from losing their job and saying there are many good ones who aren't like that.

[George II]

20. We don't condemn the entire teaching profession because a few have sex with their students.

......

[JI7]

23. because teachers who don't have sex with students aren't protecting those who do

[George II]

24. And we KNOW that all "good cops" protect the bad ones, right?

[Thinkingabout]

2. I tend to believe there are many more happy helpful stories than bad ones.

For the most part law enforcement officers has positive results. Many officers are dedicated to being the best they can be, they encounter many different citizens every day, they are here to do a job and they some cooperation.

[ColesCountyDem]

3. Good job! n/t

[cpamomfromtexas]

4. They've now got happy PR people on the job

[Skittles]

5. bullshit

stories like these are NOT uncommon

[Taitertots]

16. What evidence did you use to make that determination? N/t

[Skittles]

22. news articles that appear regularly in the news?

try branching outside your own preconceived notions

[Taitertots]

25. How many articles have you read? There are hundreds of thousands of police officers, how many...

Incidents like this can you remember? I remember a handful of incidents like this too. I personally wouldn't claim something is "Not uncommon" based on a handful of memories.

You are claiming something is "Not uncommon" but the only thing you are basing it on is a handful of sensational stories from corporate infotainment.

[Skittles]

26. by incidents I mean acts of kindness

they are NOT uncommon among LEO, firemen, paramedics, etc

[MissDeeds]

34. +10000

Thanks, Skittles. Unfortunately, this needed to be said.

[840high]

40. Agree 100%.

[GGJohn]

6. What Skittles said!!!!! eom

[Skittles]

27. people who are sickened by stereotyping have no qualms stereotyping others

it's fucking strange

[GGJohn]

28. I see quite often here not to stereotype muslims, gays, LGBT, etc, which I completely agree with,

but when it comes to cops, whooo boy.

[ripcord]

38. Haven't you heard?

Profiling people you don't like is acceptable as long as your politics are in order.

[jen1980]

30. This!

It's a fluff piece to try to counteract the truth.

[GGJohn]

32. Oh?

And just what truth would that be?

[840high]

41. Why does this good

story disturb you? I am happy they were there to help.

[jwirr]

31. These policemen are heroes. Thank you for your good work.

[MissDeeds]

35. Agreed n/t

[JEFF9K]

33. Are we allowed to say anything good about cops?

[JonLP24]

36. Survellience City

The same police officers with numerous "loitering" arrest threats.

[Chemisse]

42. Locking

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