Police Officers Grab Dangling Jumper From Minneapolis Bridge
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Minneapolis police rescued a man trying to jump off a bridge -- and it was all caught on video.
It happend on the 3rd Avenue bridge in Minneapolis around 3:00 p.m. Thursday. Police responded to a call that there was a man trying to jump into the Mississippi River.
Bridge cameras captured the moment three officers sneak up on the man, and pull him back over the edge to safety. Today the officers said they had little time to think.
On Friday, the officers said they had little time to think.
"I saw her coming from one way, and I was going another," Officer Matt Vana said. "He was over the side, and if we would have waited any longer, we felt he would've gone over."
Once police got the man off of the ledge, he was held in the squad car until an ambulance arrived. Minneapolis Police say there are more than a dozen bridge jump attempts in the city every year.