New bodycam footage shows Officer Me'Atia Sanderson with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in Florida rescue a drowning infant from a retention pond without hesitation.
GRAPHIC VIDEO: A Florida officer is being hailed a hero after she jumped into a retention pond to rescue a drowning child. Credit: Jacksonville Sheriff's Officeis being hailed a hero after she jumped into a retention pond to rescue a drowning infant, putting her own life at risk because she didn’t know how to swim, authorities said Tuesday.was the first to arrive at the scene on June 9, the sheriff's office said. She was alerted that the infant was still in the water.
Officer Me’Atia Sanderson with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office rescued a drowning infant over the summer. Video shows Sanderson, who joined the sheriff's office in 2019. sprinting into the water and make her way to the drowning child. After the child was pulled from the water, Sanderson continued
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