“What if this doesn’t work,” New York police Officer Zihan Liu thought to himself as he grabbed a chocking baby from a frantic parent.
The baby was turning purple and already unconscious.
Liu told ABC7 he did what he had only done before on a practice dummy.
He immediately went into CPR mode and began the backslap on the 22-day old child.
You can watch body cam footage of the rescue here.
The Daily Mail reports the baby girl had choked on some milk. Liu repeatedly pushed on the girl’s back to loosen her air passage.
The parents were never happier to hear their baby cry. It meant she was conscious and breathing again.
“He was translating, you know speaking to them in Mandarin,” said Officer Jeshua Hernandez, Liu’s partner. “Once he told me choking, that’s when my heart stopped.”
“I took this job, just because I love to help people, I speak the language, so why not join the force and help Chinese people in need,” Liu said.
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A hero who saved the child👍🥇🙏