Hickey jumped in and saved the man from drowning. Jason Hickey who was on the FDNY’s marine training unit when he got a distress call of a man in the Harlem River, a tidal strait that flows swiftly between the Hudson and East Rivers.
“That’s true heroism,” Biden said.įirefighter Patrick Thornton who, aboard an FDNY boat, saved a man trapped under a capsized vessel in the waters off the coast of Staten Island was also honored, along with retired Lt. Justin Hespeler, who rescued a newborn baby from a burning house. We are so grateful to you.”īiden also honored three New York City firefighters for the bravery, including Lt. “It is your care and encouragement that makes it possible for our public safety officers to do their jobs. “At the end of every shift, you are there,” he said to the families. But he also says law enforcement needs better funding and tools in order to do a highly stressful job that’s only getting worse, particularly post-pandemic.Īttorney General Merrick Garland said the recipients showed “extraordinary valor” above and beyond the call of duty. Both sought to be catalysts of change when they became police officers, but neither got the chance they deserved, gunned down during a spate of shootings of police officers in 2022 in the city.īiden, who recently announced he’d seek reelection, has spoken of the need to reform how police interact with communities, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the deaths of other Black people at the hands of police. The fallen cops were no strangers to tensions between the NYPD and some of the communities they police they’d both seen it growing up. The families of the two officers accepted their awards. Rivera died that night, Mora was pronounced dead four days later. Officer Sumit Sulan shot and killed the gunman, ending the deadly encounter moments after it began and keeping the civilians safe. 21, 2022, while responding to a call about a family dispute in a Harlem apartment. NYPD officer Wilbert Mora and his police partner Jason Rivera were shot Jan.
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