Cops Scream at Suicidal Woman Standing on Overpass, Dramatic Rescue Caught on Video
A woman in utter despair intended to end her life as she climbed onto a concrete overpass, high above bustling city traffic in Fort Worth, Texas.
The only way out of her misery, she believed at that moment, was to end her life.
She stood shakily on the thick concrete wall, screaming at the two men who aimed to stop her from committing suicide.
Fort Worth police officers Justin Henry and Trae Cierzan were the only humans poised to intervene.
The way they handled this very intense, very delicate situation shows the heart of the majority of police officers out there — a desire to serve and protect people, especially in their most vulnerable moments.
The officers took a calm, assertive approach, starting by asking the woman for her name.
“What’s your name?” Henry repeated several times, as he moved toward the desperate woman.
“It doesn’t matter,” she hollered back in anguish.
Henry refused to accept her answer.
“It does matter,” Henry told her. “It does matter.”
As the wind whipped around the woman’s emotionally bullied body, she made one last request.
“Someone take care of my dogs, OK?” she sobbed.
As Henry continued forward, Cierzan worked his way to the other side of the woman’s body, the two waiting for the right moment to pull her away from the edge.
Nervous and agitated, the woman clearly didn’t want the officers coming anywhere near her. In a heartbreaking plea, the woman tried to explain what was going through her head during her darkest hour.
“Everybody wants me dead, so I’ll just die,” she blurted out.
“Nobody wants that,” Henry calmly replied.
Finally within arm’s reach, the two officers threw their arms around the frightened woman’s body, and carried her to the ground.
They escorted her to their police car, telling her that help was on the way.
“Whatever you’re going through is not worth it,” Henry said.
“We’re here for you,” Cierzan echoed.
The video has sent shockwaves through the community, as people have reached out to cheer this woman on in her recovery and remind one another that suicide is never the answer.
At a news conference, the officers expressed their relief that the situation ended positively. “It definitely turned out the best way possible,” Cierzan said.
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