WATCH: Policeman saves 11-month-old boy who stopped breathing during protest
A police officer rescued an 11-month-old boy who stopped breathing while attending a protest in California, USA, with his mother.
The boy’s mother ran toward the policeman when her son lost consciousness at the demonstration on May 31. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department posted security camera footage of the incident on its Facebook page yesterday, June 17.
A Palmdale Sheriff's Station deputy took swift action at a park recently, when he encountered a desperate mother and her son, who was in physical distress. On Sunday, May 31, 2020, security camera footage captured the intense moment when two women ran frantically across a supermarket parking lot in the 3000 block of Rancho Vista Boulevard; one of them carried a limp, 11-month-old boy and stopped to administer back blows upon him. Moments earlier, the women were participating in a protest at the park, when the baby got sick, stopped breathing and lost consciousness. They ran toward deputies who were across the street, monitoring the protest, to seek assistance. Deputy Cameron Kinsey spotted the women coming his way, ran toward them, and met them in the parking lot. An anxious mother handed her son to the deputy, who immediately recognized something was gravely wrong. Deputy Kinsey assessed the child, administered a mouth sweep with his finger and dislodged vomit. Video footage shows clear relief in the posture of everyone encircling when the baby began to breathe again and regained alertness. Paramedics arrived shortly afterward and transported the toddler to the hospital for treatment. It was later determined the little one swallowed a coin, which lodged in his throat and blocked the airway. It was Deputy Kinsey who opened the airway with the mouth sweep procedure and turned the coin sideways, allowing air to pass through.“None of that other stuff matters,” said Deputy Kinsey about all the other things going on around him at the time, “Just the baby.”
Posted by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The mother brought her son to the protest with another woman. When he suddenly stopped breathing, the women immediately made their way across a parking lot to authorities that were monitoring the demonstration.
Deputy Cameron Kinsey quickly responded to the women’s request for help at the parking lot. Kinsey then assessed the child before performing a “mouth sweep” with his finger, which dislodged vomit from the child.
The “mouth sweep” procedure is used to remove an object from a choking person’s airways, as per Harvard Health Publishing.
After inducing the vomit, the child regained consciousness and began breathing again. Paramedics later arrived and took the kid to a hospital for treatment.
They later found out that the toddler had swallowed a coin, which blocked his airways. Kinsey’s move had apparently moved the coin sideways and unblocked the child’s airways.
“None of that other stuff matters,” Kinsey said when recalling the incident. “Just the baby.” /ra
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