Overview
- NYPD officers, who responded Thursday to a 911 call at Avalon Willoughby Square, found a 41-year-old woman seated on a rooftop ledge in Downtown Brooklyn.
- The first officer introduced himself as Nicholas and held her hand through the glass as 84th Precinct Officers Phillip Aban and Katarzyna Kwasnik kept her engaged, including phoning her mother on speaker.
- Emergency Service Unit specialists arrived with ropes, harnesses, and carabiners, rappelled to the ledge, sat with the woman until she was ready, and then guided her back over the guardrail to the roof.
- EMS took the woman to a local hospital for treatment, and the NYPD later released body-worn camera video and publicly commended the officers’ actions.
- ESU is the department’s high-angle rescue team, and news outlets noted the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline as a resource since police often encounter mental health crises during non-enforcement calls.