NEW YORK (VINnews) — NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Thursday released dramatic video showing officers rescuing a woman who on Wednesday, was threatening to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge.
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The footage shows members of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit climbing onto the bridge high above the East River and spending nearly an hour speaking with the woman before safely pulling her back from the edge.
“This video of a rescue last night on the Brooklyn Bridge will take your breath away,” Tisch wrote on X. “For nearly an hour, they stayed with her, spoke with her, and waited for the moment they could safely pull her back from the edge.”
“The care, courage, and compassion these officers showed was just extraordinary,” she added. “May God bless them.”
The NYPD did not immediately release additional details about the woman or the circumstances leading up to the incident.
This video of a rescue last night on the Brooklyn Bridge will take your breath away.
High above the East River, NYPD ESU officers climbed onto the Brooklyn Bridge to reach a woman in crisis who was threatening to jump.
For nearly an hour, they stayed with her, spoke with her,… pic.twitter.com/wP9JWBD1rd
— Jessica S. Tisch (@NYPDPC) July 9, 2026
and mamdani wanted to rid of the nypd. shame on him
so sad, when a person is so depressed and unhappy that they want to take their own life.
Kudos to the police who put in much time and effort to speak with her and convince her not to jump.
Hope that she is given proper mental health treatment.
Score one for NYPD. Such a person can be helped by this special team. The obvious reason being: If she was so determined to end here life, she’d done it already before all arrived with her, so it’s clearly she was “sitting on the fence” (pun – in this case literally).
If I’m a NY judge, reahab punishment would be long community service back to NYC – after her mental health is addressed – to pay back all the traffic time / money wasted.
Such a selfish person. Screw up the lives of so many because you need attention.