Posted on 09/13/2017 7:42:15 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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If Norem let go, the jumper would die. Cars would swerve and crash. Others might die too.
But Norem was determined not to let that happen. He wrapped the man’s leg in a bear hug and lifted his feet, using his body to anchor the jumper to the overpass. The man had too much leverage for Norem to pull him off the fence, but Norem – a big cop loaded with gear – was too strong and too heavy for the man to yank free. It was a stalemate in a tug-of-war between life and death.
But the jumper had a knife.
He stabbed downward.
“When I got struck in the face, it didn’t really hurt,” Norem said. “It felt like I had been punched and it felt wet, like a water balloon had popped. I came to figure out later that was my eye.”
“It would have been very easy to give up,” Norem said, speaking to The Desert Sun in his first-ever interview about the stabbing. “I could have just medically retired, but instead I kept working to find an answer. And now, because of that, I get to keep doing what I love to do.”
She took a deep breath of relief, believing the danger was over, then looked up at Norem’s face for the first time.
Oh my god, she thought.
Streaks of red ran from Norem’s right eye down his cheek and neck. His elbow had been slashed open, and the hair on his forearm was slicked with drying blood. A bloodstain grew on his back, where deep stab wounds in his shoulder were oozing through his beige uniform.
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What a story and what a real man.
Thank God for men like him and that they still exist in this country.
I am also blown away by what medical science can do these days.
Where is this?
RIVERSIDE, Calif.
Wow! What a story...what dedication and guts!
Thanks——quite a guy.
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Men like him are few and far between these days.
This is a throwback to the police of old, to protect and serve. Modern police SOP would be to shoot the knife-wielding assailant.
True Grit is right. What an outstanding story of a brave selfless man.
“Modern police SOP would be to shoot the knife-wielding assailant.”
Really,that’s standard procedure?
I assume that you’re in law enforcement if you claim that.
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“Modern police SOP would be to shoot the knife-wielding assailant.”
I think you are correct.
Amazing story. Nearly the same eye injury happened to my Dad in 74. A bottle rocket hit him. The pain is incredible from the elevated intraoccular pressure in his case. He also had a torn cornea and the keyhole that went unrepaired. He was determined to keep the eye and did.
Astounding surgery.
Great story. A true hero.
These days and always, I would suspect.
So inspiring!
Wow.
WWII
Breathtaking. In every way. Awesome and amazing.
Clint Eastwood needs to meet this man and his wife.
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