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VIDEO: Off-Duty NYPD Hero Rescues Man Trying To Jump From Bayonne Bridge VIDEO: Off-Duty NYPD Hero Rescues Man Trying To Jump From Bayonne Bridge
Video: Off-Duty Nypd Hero Rescues Man Trying To Jump From Bayonne Bridge Dramatic video shows an off-duty NYPD officer saving a man trying to jump from the Bayonne Bridge. Police Officer Cory Pilzer was on the bridge walkway with his family this past Sunday when he spotted the 22-year-old man starting to climb the suicide prevention fence, the NYPD said. Pilzer bolted toward the despondent man, jumped and yanked him down by the waistband. They held onto him for uniformed Port Authority police officers, who took the man to Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island. “Always out there. Always protecting — even off-duty!," NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea t…

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by Jerry DeMarco