NYPD officers rescued a woman from high atop the Brooklyn Bridge last night, using harnesses to climb the suspension cables of the bridge themselves. One officer’s bodycam caught the whole thing as they scaled about halfway up to the Brooklyn tower. (That is the Tribeca Trib’s video from YouTube above, but you can also see the NYPD’s original footage on X here.)

“You ok?” the officer says to the woman on the bridge. “My name’s Chris, what’s your name?”

He was one of nine officers on the bridge’s cables at that point.

“I just want to talk. I want to help you. That’s why I am up here right now. I genuinely care, I do. It’s a permanent situation to a temporary problem. I don’t know what you are going through but I want to understand. We have services we can get you to. The strongest thing you can do right now is get help.”

At one moment he begs her, “Don’t do it, please,” just before he grabs her around the waist.

The incident started at approximately 6:30p, when police responded to multiple 911 calls for help on the Brooklyn Bridge. Upon arrival, officers observed a 31-year-old woman on an elevated area of the Brooklyn Bridge. Members of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit climbed the bridge, engaged her in dialogue and safely removed her from the bridge.

“For nearly an hour, they stayed with her, spoke with her, and waited for the moment they could safely pull her back from the edge,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on X. “The care, courage, and compassion these officers showed was just extraordinary.”

EMS transported the woman to an area hospital for evaluation. There were no injuries reported. There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.

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