Officer Saves Choking Baby's Life: Video

CULVER CITY, CA – A Culver City police officer received special honors from the City Council Monday after he saved a choking baby who had stopped breathing. Officer Brian Cappell’s body camera caught the March 22 incident on video.

Cappell responded to the call of a baby choking just after 4 p.m., ABC7 reported. Janet Lockridge was driving when her 9-month-old daughter Harleigh started choking on food.

In the suspenseful body camera video, Cappell is seen running towards Lockridge’s parked car and opening the passenger door to reach the baby.

“Please,” Lockridge pleaded. “I don’t know, she’s like not breathing.”

Cappell then pulled Harleigh out of vehicle and turned her face down, firmly patting the baby’s back to dislodge the food.

“Come on baby, you’re all right!” Cappell said while performing the choking rescue.

Then, the sound everyone was waiting for: baby Harleigh started to cry.

“Okay, she’s crying now, so she’s getting air,” Cappell said as he continued to dislodge the food.

Cappell told ABC7 he’s never experienced anything like it in the 19 years he’s worked for the Culver City Police Department.

“Once I heard the baby crying, it was the best sound I ever heard in my life,” he said.

Lockridge told NBC Los Angeles she’s so grateful that Officer Cappell saved her daughter’s life. The next day they reconnected – Lockridge hugged the officer, and Cappell asked to hold the baby.

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“I’m just extremely, extremely grateful and I’m indebted to him forever,” Lockridge told the news station.