Sheriff's Deputy Delivers Baby After Pulling Over Speeding Parents: A 'Reasonable Excuse'

[Stuart G]

Nice story from Florida:

https://people.com/human-interest/sheriffs-deputy-delivers-baby-pulling-over-speeding-parents/

As a Florida sheriff’s deputy in law enforcement for nearly three decades, Robert Pounds has delivered plenty of speeding tickets over the years. But prior to this week, he’d never before delivered a baby.

Pounds put his many years of training to work early Tuesday when he helped deliver a baby girl on the side of the road after pulling her parents over for speeding

The deputy had noticed a car going 63 mph in a 45 mph zone on Airport-Pulling Road in Collier County, and conducted a traffic stop around 4:30 a.m., the Collier County Sheriff’s Department said in a Facebook post.

As footage from the dash-cam shows, the car’s driver, Wilfrid Jean-Louis, explained the situation, prompting Pounds, a father of three, to spring into action and helped deliver a baby girl

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Happy "Kick"!

[murielm99]

2. I love this story.

Thank you.

[Stuart G]

3. Take a look at the faces...very happy, ..healthy new person in the world. No wonder

they are smiling.. You know, I never rec my own posts..but got to this time..

[Liberty Belle]

4. Nice to see a white cop treating black folks decently.

We need more stories like this to restore faith in humanity.

[packman]

5. Not to throw cold water on this - but,

The county is a heavily Repuke county - last time it voted Dem was when Adali Stevenson was running. In addition, black population is around 5% and notice not one black cop or responder in the video.

Nevertheless, it was a good thing that turned out well.