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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ping TO A GREAT STORY!!!!!!!!
I replied to this earlier, but I don’t see it now. I see a thread cancelled by Jim Robinson as “garbage” that I contributed to. What is going on? Is this good bye? I don’t see why.
I’m not sure a knife wielding shitbag who would stab a cop in the eye, while the cop’s tying to save him needs to be kept alive to deal with other innocents later on. Lets face it - in Cali it is a wonder some judge didn’t give that illegal a ruling mandating Law Enforcement is banned from ever interacting with him again, because of white supremacy, before setting him free on society.
The cop is a machine, and deserves credit, but I would still support shoot on sight as an SOP for mentals with knives trying to off themselves.
We need more Darwinian selection in this society, not less.
Decisions are made in a split second, then you follow through with everything you are. We just hope and pray that we are up to the task when called.
We can have the luxury of second guessing later on I suppose.
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