The incident occurred during the school handover last week.
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A New Jersey police officer was caught on camera saving a girl of being caught between two SUVs last week.
It was an ordinary morning during student drop off outside West Ridge Elementary School in Park Ridge until a girl ran behind a reversing van to pick up a hair clip. That’s when Officer Mike Stallone, without hesitation, grabbed him and pulled him out preventing a tragedy.
The moment was captured in a video provided by the Park Ridge Police Department showing the moment the officer became a true hero.
“It happened very quickly, so when I leaned over to pick it up, I saw that the reverse lights were right at my eye level. and that she was a little girl on that level too. It was shocking,” Stallone said.
Officer Stallone has been in law enforcement for over twenty years, yet for the past three weeks he has been tasked with making sure students are safe at all times while at school.
The car in the video is believed to have had a backup camera, a requirement on all new cars since 2018, following the passage of the Cameron Gulbransen Child Transportation Safety Act. The legislation was passed after a Long Island father accidentally backtracked and killed his young son.
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