How many times have you felt like this?
If the police need this type of vehicle, they should call the National Guard, not their own garage!
Posted on 10/02/2014 5:29:55 AM PDT by areukiddingme1
RED HOOK, N.Y. — A Red Hook police officer saved the life of a two-year-old boy after stopping the father’s vehicle.
Sgt. Patrick Hildenbrand stopped the speeding vehicle, prompting the father Matthew Morgan to exit the vehicle, frantic about his lifeless son.
Hildenbrand put the father and his son in the backseat of his SUV and headed to the hospital at full speed, calling ahead to alert the medical staff
(Excerpt) Read more at policeone.com ...
Great cop! Great human being!
For you cop haters..... Nice going officer!
Awesome job Sgt. Patrick Hildenbrand — Thank you for being on watch and for your quick actions in saving that young boys life. That young boy may just someday grow up to be a police officer.
God Bless You Sgt. Patrick Hildenbrand — You are a great American!
Hooyah Sgt. Hildenbrand!
DaveA37 “cop haters” on FR?!?
Shirley You Jest?
they’ll probably turn up shortly at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210257/posts
For those of us with sufficient long-term memory to remember the sudden AIDS uptick, don’t be surprised if the current Ebola outbreak doesn’t cut down on the frequency of this sort of thing happening. At the latest count, the Ebola patient in Texas has put 80 people on the “exposed” list.
Good cop ping!
“Good cop ping!”
Is there such a thing?
Because lately I’ve been beginning to wonder if everyone on FR had gone completely mad and I didn’t get the memo stating that we were supposed to start hating on the police.
Yes he did something good. Now, does that mean ignore wrongs? No. Good deeds do not erase bad deeds. The bad still must be addressed.
As for cop haters? So sorry people are getting sick of unprofessional conduct, that Thin Blue Line, the arroance of Lucifer, excess violent tendencies, cops playing on their computer while driving and killing someone, screw up shootings like in the Dorner hunt, general corruption, and other cops not caring a bit.
Maybe cops have earned the hate.
If you think nothing is wrong with cops, your employer should drug test you. Who promised cops a blank check for their behavior?
The formula is simple - cops who protect and serve the citizenry are great people worthy ofr respect; cops who abuse their authority and the citizenry are bad people not worthy of respect.
The majority of police, like this hero cop, fall into the first category.
There is a difference between out right hating cops and pointing out particular heinous acts that cops commit. The first has no respect for the badge and are genuine cop haters. The second are not cop haters but merely disgusted with the personal acts of the cops who leave their acts particularly questionable.
I would be almost 99% correct that the freepers you claim are cop haters actually fall into the second category. They still respect the badge but not the particular officer in question due to the specific act in which the officer has committed.
Please do not confuse the categories as it is very easy to do.
Now I also would not be remiss and stating that there are some here who try to bait to stir the coals to fan the flames; Perhaps you might be one of them??
My above post was not meant for Dave but to albie.
My apologies.
In all of my first hand encounters with LEOs since then, nothing has changed my opinion, only strengthened it.
It's the stories of other people's encounters with the bad cops that have increased my choice of opinions and possibe first impression for next time.
Just one bad anything will ruin the bunch and that's especially true with a bad cop and community trust and good will.
Fortunately, we have people like this man to show us what "normal" looks and acts like and I am grateful to him and for how people like him choose to serve others with their lives.
If things in our world have gotten so bad that we view LEOs with distrust, imagine how they view us in the general public.
And yet, they still go and do what they have to do, what many are called to do. Like this man did.
Amen and thank you for such a thoughtful post — All true.
How many times have you felt like this?
If the police need this type of vehicle, they should call the National Guard, not their own garage!
Thank you...
Sorry but a hero endangers his or her life while performing an unselfish voluntary act. There has to be risk of injury or death involved to qualify for the hero status.
“Sorry but a hero endangers his or her life while performing an unselfish voluntary act.”
I bet there is a two year old little boy that would beg to differ.
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