Police Reserve Association of the City of New York

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OFF DUTY COP SAVES 3 This evening, June 18, 2015, at approximately 8:00 PM, a car carrying 3 African-American women lost a tire while traveling at 70 miles per hour and overturned on I-64 eastbound, south of Williamsburg, Virginia. Within seconds, oil and gas spilled out onto the highway as smoke began to billow from a hood that was folded like an accordion. Without regard to his own safety, a white, off-duty police officer, his gun still strapped to his side, jumped from hi...s car and raced across the highway toward the victims. The driver of the car was able to pull herself out of the passenger’s window but two other women were trapped in what was threatening to become, literally, an explosive situation. The officer pulled the second woman out of the rear right window as the car teetered on its left side and carried her to safety. I pulled the third woman out through the window and carried her on my shoulders to the other side of the road as blood dripped from what appeared to be a non-life threatening laceration. I then saw the officer go back a second time to check for any other victims. Then, he reached inside the car to shut off the engine so that no spark could ignite the trail of gasoline that covered the road. A third Samaritan, also white, called 911 for help. What happened here belies the rhetoric so often espoused by race mongers and cop haters. Here, there was no hint of racism, no thread of white privilege, no smidgen of a police officer failing in his duty. In fact, the officer was off-duty. This is not just about what police are trained to do in cities across America. This is what they want to do and why they took an oath to protect and to serve and, in so doing, risk their lives so that others may live. Here, three white Samaritans did not stop to ask what color the victims were. In fact, they did not stop at all. All they saw were people whose lives mattered; not black lives, not white lives, simply lives. I am proud of what happened in Virginia on this date because, if anything, it confirms my faith that humanity is color blind. Steve Arnold, MD

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