
A teenager is to be honored for helping save the life of a police officer who suffered a heart attack as he arrested him.
Officer Franklin Foulks was questioning Jamal Rutledge at the police station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 10 September when the accident happened.
The policeman suddenly fell down to the ground and the handcuffed 17-year-old began kicking the security fence and shouting to alert others to the medical emergency. Officers heard the noise and went over to find 49-year-old Officer Foulks clutching his chest painfully. They performed CPR and electronically stimulated his heart.
In a statement, Fort Lauderdale police said it was Rutledge's quick thinking and the officers' response that helped Officer Foulks' survived.
The teen and three Fort Lauderdale police officers will be praised at a ceremony next Wednesday.
Despite being praised as a hero, he has apparently not managed to stay on the right side of the law. Rutledge has been arrested "multiple times" since last September, a police spokeswoman said.
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