NJ Transit cop thwarts a suicide

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http://nj1015.com/how-this-hero-cop-pulled-green-mile-guy-from-train-tracks-just-in-time/

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Considering all the charges they threw at him, I am surprised they didn’t charge him for impersonating a kitchen sink. After all people do place their old kitchen sinks on the tracks. Charge the man with ‘something’; not everything - police charging practices are reaching the rediculous.

Jefferson of Elizabeth is charged with one count aggravated assault on police officer, two counts of resisting arrest, one count interference with transportation and one count of disorderly conduct. He was in the Hudson County jail pending a hearing on Monday.

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Jefferson of Elizabeth is charged with one count aggravated assault on police officer, two counts of resisting arrest, one count interference with transportation and one count of disorderly conduct. He was in the Hudson County jail pending a hearing on Monday.

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I am now retired, but the department I am retired from would not have arrested him. He would have been involutarily commited to a psych facility for evaluation.

… unless, of course, the charges are related to his claim that he was doing it to avoid going to jail.

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So - if he had an outstanding warrant or parole violation - charge and prosecute that. Just throwing charge after charge after charge shows me a police department/prosecutor that doesn’t KNOW the law and throws everything they can think of against the wall in the hopes that something, anything will stick.

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Sometimes I wonder if the reason they like to pile up a whole bunch of charges against an arrestee is so they can get an easier conviction by offering to drop some of them in a plea bargain.

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Any words of praise for Officer Ortiz? That man is a hero! Watch the video and look at how close he came to losing his life trying to save another.

There’s a saying “You can’t save people from themselves,” but Officer Otiz sure did it!