Moment Off-Duty Cop Saves Jumper On NYC Bridge

Story ByLee Bullen, Sub EditorJoseph Golder, AgencyNewsflash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUTrnAaykTs&feature=youtu.be
Newsflash/@NYPDShea

This is the moment an off-duty cop and a good Samaritan stop a ‘despondent’ man from jumping off a New York bridge.

The incident was filmed at Bayonne Bridge, connecting Bayonne in New Jersey with Staten Island, a borough of New York City in the USA.

In the footage, shared on Twitter by NYPD commissioner Dermot Shea, a man is seen climbing the rails on the bridge as a heavyset onlooker runs towards him on the pavement.

As he arrives at the scene, another burly man in a blue T-shirt hands his phone to a woman and then rushes over to help.

The first man yanks the jumper from the rails before calming him down on the ground and pointing to arriving cops.

According to local media, police officer Corey Pilzer of the 120th Precinct in St. George was with his family on the bridge when the 22-year-old man tried to jump.

Newsflash/@NYPDShea

Along with the helpful passerby, they stayed with the man until officers of the Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) arrived on the scene.

The 22-year-old man was taken to the Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island in a stable condition, according to reports.

NYPD commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted. “Always out there. Always protecting – even off-duty!

“This weekend, @NYPD120Pct Officer Pilzer was enjoying his day off when he saw a despondent man about to jump off the Bayonne Bridge. With some help from a bystander, they stopped the troubled man and surely prevented a tragedy.”

In April, the body of a New Jersey woman was found in the water after jumping from the bridge, according to reports.