NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – The NYPD shared bodycam video on Thursday of officers talking down a suicidal man in West Harlem, a harrowing exchange that lasted nearly 40 minutes before ESU officers arrived to rescue him.
“I’ve been in your shoes and there are solutions, and I promise you that as NYPD, we do have the resources,” Officer Carl Fayette said in a three-minute recap of the rescue. “I promise you we’ll do anything in our power to help you.”
The bodycam footage shows two officers, Fayette and Officer Eleodoro J. Mata, calmly trying to convince the man to come back down from an overpass on Riverside Drive, near West 130th Street.
The video ends with the ESU helping the man get off the edge, and with Fayette breaking down in tears.
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