By Thomas Tracy
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — A pair of fast-moving NYPD officers saved a choking 10-month-old boy wearing police car pajamas as the child’s panicked parents stood nearby, as seen in an exclusive video shared with the Daily News.
Police Officers Botirjon Botirov and Gabriel Gonzalez, from the 115th Precinct, were called to the home on 37th Ave. near 99th St. in Richmond Hill around 4:40 p.m. on Oct. 10, where they found family members trying to save their choking child.
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Body-worn camera video shows one of the officers taking the baby from a family member and vigorously patting the baby’s back more than a dozen times, ultimately dislodging what was in the baby’s throat.
The little boy was wearing white pajamas with police cars and fire trucks on it during the save, the video shows.
The baby, which wasn’t breathing, quickly revived and started crying, the video shows. The two officers took turns happily holding the infant, calming him down, as EMS arrived.
The child was taken to a Elmhurst Hospital Center for observation and ultimately went home with his parents.
The two hero cops each has less than two years with the department, officials said.
NYPD officers have received CPR training since 2017, after then- Gov. Cuomo signed Briana’s Law, which requires CPR training for all state and city cops before they graduate the Police Academy. Officers must be recertified in their CPR training every two years, officials said.
The law is named after Briana Ojeda, an 11-year-old girl who suffered a life-threatening asthma attack while playing at a city playground in August 2010. Briana’s mother, Carmen Torres, was rushing to get her daughter to a hospital when she was pulled over by an NYPD officer for driving the wrong way down a street.
The officers who pulled Ojeda over didn’t know CPR and weren’t able to resuscitate her, officials said.
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