A heroic officer happened to be in the right place at the right time and saved a sleeping man from falling from the edge of a bridge in Oklahoma.
Officer Reyes of the State City Police responded to a welfare check on a man who was reportedly fast asleep on a bridge near S. Pennsylvania and Exchange Avenue earlier this month.
But the routine welfare check quickly turned into a rescue mission that was all captured on dramatic bodycam footage.
The man — who was fast asleep and lying flat on his back in a red sweatshirt — began rolling sideways and off the thin edge of the bridge.
Just as he was about to fall, Reyes was captured when he quickly reacted to the near-catastrophic accident and barely grabbed the man by his sweatshirt, keeping him from falling into the hundreds of bodies of water on his own. from feet below.
A Good Samaritan also stopped his flight to assist the officer in the rescue effort once he became aware of what was happening.
Reyes forcefully held the arm of the man – who was alert and awake at the time – as the passerby helped hoist the grunting man back to safer ground.
“Are you okay, buddy?” Reyes said in the released footage once the man was successfully rescued.
The man was not injured in the heartbreaking incident and was cleared by medical staff – he was simply sleeping. Reyes eventually gave him a ride back to his family.
Newly released bodycam footage captured a heroic Oklahoma police officer saving a man sleeping on the thin edge of a bridge
The man was seen starting to roll onto his side, but just as he was about to plunge into the water below, the officer reacted in the nick of time and barely grabbed the man by the sweatshirt to hoist him back onto safer ground.