North Carolina deputy saves 3 drowning kids

[Common]

North Carolina deputy saves 3 drowning kids in dark pond as dad is arrested

The pic of the father, he looks strung out big time

A North Carolina sheriff's deputy says he heard wailing in the darkness and plunged into an apartment complex's pond at night to rescue two young girls who, police say, had been thrown there to drown by their father.

Durham County Sheriff's Deputy David Earp was off duty and says he rushed out with little more than his department T-shirt, badge and flashlight after the apartment manager called him at home around 9 p.m. Sunday to report some kind of trouble.
"I heard something about children, that they might possibly be in trouble," Earp said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. "And after I was informed that there were kids involved, instinct took over just to go out there and rescue them."


Earp, who lives around the corner from the pond, spotted the girls in the dark with his flashlight and saw a 5-year-old floating and crying. Her 3-year-old sister was fully submerged. Earp says he charged into water about 5 feet deep and scooped them up, holding one in each arm.
He took no notice of the girls' father, Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter, 29, of Raleigh — the man who was later charged with trying to drown his kids. In the heat of the moment, Earp was focused on just one thing: trying to save the girls' lives.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2370813

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North Carolina deputy saves 3 drowning kids in dark pond as dad is arrested

The pic of the father, he looks strung out big time

A North Carolina sheriff's deputy says he heard wailing in the darkness and plunged into an apartment complex's pond at night to rescue two young girls who, police say, had been thrown there to drown by their father.

Durham County Sheriff's Deputy David Earp was off duty and says he rushed out with little more than his department T-shirt, badge and flashlight after the apartment manager called him at home around 9 p.m. Sunday to report some kind of trouble.
"I heard something about children, that they might possibly be in trouble," Earp said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. "And after I was informed that there were kids involved, instinct took over just to go out there and rescue them."


Earp, who lives around the corner from the pond, spotted the girls in the dark with his flashlight and saw a 5-year-old floating and crying. Her 3-year-old sister was fully submerged. Earp says he charged into water about 5 feet deep and scooped them up, holding one in each arm.
He took no notice of the girls' father, Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter, 29, of Raleigh — the man who was later charged with trying to drown his kids. In the heat of the moment, Earp was focused on just one thing: trying to save the girls' lives.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2370813

Now that's appropriate use of an off duty cop vs. beating up a former tennis star for being black in an upscale neighborhood

[Adelaide]

Good for him. It's always good to hear positive stories involving police since most just want to do a good job.

[Crepitus]

Good on him. need to hear more of the good stories.

[Truth Detector]

Good on him. need to hear more of the good stories.

Yes; much better to bombard forums with the race hustling stupidity of "black lives matter" and "hands up, don't shoot."

[Peter1469]

Earp...! I wonder if he has a famous relative.




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[Private Pickle]

Racist!

[Common]

Now that's appropriate use of an off duty cop vs. beating up a former tennis star for being black in an upscale neighborhood

Should have killed him instead of body slamming him, then he couldnt run his mouth