Had no idea. Good thinking that saved his life

I hadn’t seen that but the other comments said he survived. That’s why a brother is a wonderful thing to have❤

Literally the world's best brother. I can't imagine how traumatic this was for him

8 or 10 yr old?

God Bless that little boy and his brother. What a sh#tty thing to have to go through. Good officer w balls to get that boy away from danger. Awesome work right there.

Thanks for the update 👍👍👍

Where did you see this?

That first scream after he was just making shivering sounds, that loud scream legit brought tears to my eyes , I was happy he was awake and then you can hear the pain in his cries. I haven't cried like that in awhile from watching a video😭

the thing is the victim was not conscience AT ALL on the way to the hospital , that was his body reacting to the electrocution . this is called SHOCK . while the victim was not awake, his body was reacting to the pain and trauma . Because it happened so fast he was unable to scream when it happened .

I watched it but how did he get electrocuted? I might have missed it

@@vaanikarthik he touched or grabbed a downed power line. Whether on accident or intentional, I didn't hear but glad he made. The police are heroes.

From what I was able to find, the boy has permanent brain damage and had to have reconstructive surgery done on his hands. Both him and his older 10 year old brother were electrocuted. I believe the older brother is the one who pulled him off of the line hanging 4ft above the road and got electrocuted in the process. Somehow, one of the lines off camera was touching the ground and electrifying the wet spots on the road. When they pull him away in the video, look closely at the ground, you can see the burn spots where his heels, tailbone and the back of his head were touching the ground. “The younger brother went through the caution tape and grabbed a wire that was hanging at about five feet and tried to lift the wire up over his head and received a jolt,” said McAdams. “His older brother hit him with his backpack and was attempting to pull his brother away from the wire when the police came and removed the child from the wire.”

I bet he was still out in the back of the car. He's kinda snoring in between screams. Makes me believe he was reliving being electrocuted.

…and saving his life

I believe the people around the police were sobbing I think he was out cold.

The screaming at the beginning was coming from his little brother who had witnessed the incident. The electrocuted boy was unconscious.

Yes, both he and the African American man ❤

It was unreal! Did you see the other video from his camera? Wow. Great stuff Officer! It looked like he may have burnt his hand? I mean the way he shook it when he let go of the boy. My dad used to investigate deaths from electrocution. He’s gone 20 years now. Wish I could ask him about this.

In cases of electrocution it's extremely dangerous to try and help the person because you can easily be electrocuted next, which is why people hesitate. I believe for electricians and other people who work with electricity, the first thing they have to do to help is leave the person and shut off the power, which in this case isn't possible because it's an outdoor power line.

Officer Rose*

Rubber soles!

@@amymusick5455Ah, yes, rubber sole gloves 🤡

You should see the movie with Travolta in it about the lineman who go up those power poles

They say he's hot, meaning his whole body was so warm/electrically charged, it hurt an adult to touch him. Savage, really.

​@@LlibertarianGaltexactly.... unfortunately, what we can see and hear is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to electrocution at that lvl.... I had 220v burn through a pair of Milwaukee grade 4 gloves and jolt me off my feet, and threw me back a good 5ft... and it was a split second of contact. I really hope this lil guy recovers well.

FYI it was a incorrectly wired "Switched Socket" in a kitchen, paired with a mislabeled breaker box.

@@LlibertarianGalthot as in electrically hot, the cop that jumped was touch potentialed through his foot. Read about touch and step potential.

DEFUND the Police!

It’s their job and they get no where near the respect they deserve for it anymore. It’s the same heroic attitude that the first responders had on 9/11. Knowing they could get killed but doing it anyway because it’s their duty. Mad respect

If you havent seen it already, you should look up the body cam of the officer you're talking about. That's where i first saw this story. It's an amazing act of bravery and then he is talking to the boy while petting his head the whole time and then carrying him to the back of a cruiser to drive to the hospital because they didnt want to wait for an ambulance to get the kid the help he needed. Honestly an A+ human being. I have to warn you though, the part where they're racing to the hospital is excruciating because the kid is finally conscious and the pain sets in. His screams are heartbreaking

@@19JMT96 I found that video footage first, I believe this one stated he was officer Dave and He's the bald man on the kid's left (judging from the perspectives). God the end of that footage was heart wrenching, to hear a little boy cry like that... Edit: I had to go find the link for people. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7-UorJ0zr23lac.html

That cop deserves a statue in his town. That was crazy how someone yelled don't touch him and he runs in anyway and makes it all work out.

that a super-hero quote right there

Well what the heck did you think he was going to do? Just let him lay there?

​@@purplelove3666yeah

@@purplelove3666 It would have been the more rational choice. Even with a fat kid like that the potential for conductivity endangering the people that still matter is quite high.

@@vangroover1903your comment is insensitive. This kid almost died. It’d be better if you had some respect in your word choice.

@@arlecelarae654 But he didn't. I was worried about the people he put in danger with his stupidity. Hopefully he learns from this shocking experience.

they did it smart...each grabbed only one limb, so the residual voltage still in the kid couldn't arc through the cops' bodies...still get 'stung'...but not likely a lethal hit...still sketchy AF to do...but...have to do SOMETHING...use something non-conductive when you can...but, yeh...snap decisions...

@@cferguson37 oh I’m not dissing them at all. I’m just pointing out how dangerous this was, and how much risk they accepted doing it.

I can only think that with 'hot' they refer to his body being warm from the electricity that has passed through his body. If the officers, in some way got shocked as well, you would have seen or heard it: either by arcflash, buzzing noises or the officers retracting as they would get shocked everytime they would try to touch him. I did an experiment with battery powered equipment once to try and see how little current it takes to feel it (there are well-known charts online, but I wanted to see what a wet concrete floor does to those numbers): I was quite stunned to see that at just 0,3 mA or so, with me standing on a wet concrete floor, covered with ceramic tiles (shower) I already got a 'holy **** it's live' kind of reaction. If the kid would have been 'hot' as in 'energised', the officers most likely would not have had any possibility to touch him without getting injured (or even killed) themselves.

@@weeardguy 1:16

​@@cferguson37True, the one cop with thin rubber gloves provided some insulation and grabbing the kid's shoes provided some insulation.

The officer who saved him reacted as if his hand got shocked even after pulling him away. I never thought about it before but electric stays in the body? No wonder the kid was screaming…

it was the Agonal Breathing that had me hollaring at the video...'HES NOT BREATHING!!! get him an to an ER NOW...and yeh...amazing he survived, hoping the following days were good to him...thats when a lot of shock victims get into trouble

@@cferguson37 Right. He was very near death.

​@cferguson37 notice the pointing finger when he was on the ground? He definitely died for a bit and came back.

@@cferguson37 what do you mean? How is that not breathing?

I'd like to know who took all that time to string the police tape instead of helping the poor kid! And where was the wire anyway?

@@CharGC123 you think they put the tape up after he got shocked? Surely you aren’t that stupid

@@CharGC123I don’t think police put that up. But why was wire on ground? That should have been fixed asap.

@@CharGC123 I am waiting for that to come out in the news, but I was thinking maybe the wire was already down and the area was already roped off. why somebody wasn’t standing there guarding the area especially because it was so close to the school and children are often curious.

@@CharGC123are you freaking serious right now?! Really?! You liberal turd! How can you be so dunce???

I did stupid shit too can't really blame the kid, I once jumped off my wardrobe thinking I was a dragon and scrapped all the skin of my shins on bed frame

Caution tape

@@Monk-EOH MY GOD, OW!

​@@Monk-E Yeah, let's blame no one ! Your comment perfectly sums up nowadays' way of thinking ! 🙄🤦‍♀️

We all did stupid sh.. As kids. I once put my fingers up to an electrical socket & pretended to be electrocuted to prank my family when i was a kid. If i would have been electrocuted, i woulda deserved it. Dont know what the hell i was thinking 😮

This happened a year ago. I read on fox10pheonix that the boy survived and the police are being awarded with a medal 🙂 I hope the boy and his brother are also recovered/recovering mentally because I can imagine how traumatic this is.

​@ThePrincessajojo thank you!

kids know what caution tape means. another commenter said the line was "probably dead but those lines can still carry a huge amount of power through Capacitance." so they might have just thought that since they disconnected its power it was safe to leave it. power company still should have been there to make it safe though.

Can aaaaaaanybody freaking explain WHAT happened here so we can all learn and this won’t happen again? Anyone?

@@iliafigueroa4820 A power line was damaged or fallen or something. The only real precaution they took was putting a crapton of "stay away" tape around it and that kid touched it. The main failure here (I think) is that they didn't set someone to stay nearby and keep people away from it, kids do stupid stuff.

@@iliafigueroa4820 I can't see a wire anywhere, and I watched a video featuring the other cop's body cam.

@@TheGruffchickJournalwell its there

It's an awful helpless feeling.

Maybe some aren’t dads, but they’d make an amazing dad

His hands did look bad and if you looked at the very end of the other video this channel posted about this story, his head appeared to have severe third degree burns on over 50% of it. That was a hard one to watch.

On the other video some comments said that it happened last year and he has made a recovery.

@@justtryme2020 yeah it was pretty hard to watch.i was wondering about his head. I saw that. Hopefully he and hid brother and the officers are doing okay.

@@zeusdarkgod7727 thank you!

@@JDillon-qd7fh your welcome brother, and think about this as well, those cops said he was still hot, which means they literally dispersed some of what was in him into themselves, that could have made all the difference in his survival. I didn't even know that humans could act like a capacitor.

Wow, I didn't have my volume up. I just across it by accident. I didn't want rematch. It was too much for me. I came in there to read up dates on the boy.

@@funnygirlever The little boy lived through this horrible ordeal and is recovering, best to my knowledge.

Which brings up the biggest question in my mind. Why was there no one there to keep people away from the lines? Clearly it was already known about as it was taped off already. Someone's gonna get their ass handed to them in court over this, and deserve every bit of it

​@@hosedragger-2045the bigger question why was the wire still live. They had time to put that much tape up, they had time to contact the power company.

If this is true, it further emphasizes the importance of teaching children about the dangers of wires.

@@buckeyehockey1979 they prob did if it was after a big storm they could be a lot of down powerlines and they didnt get to it yet

​@@buckeyehockey1979what an ignorant comment, "if this is true." You seem dense.

The crying and screaming was coming from the other little boy who was there, the kid who was electrocuted was unconscious and when he did come to, you didn't hear a peep from him. Regardless though, good on those cops for not hesitating.

You don't scream after you've been hit with that much voltage. You go into extreme shock and are completely unconscious.

@@lakaiskates8064 There is video from the perspective of the officer that rescued the boy. They transported him in the police car and he came to and screamed much of the way to the hospital. The officer stayed right with him the entire time and continued reassuring the boy. I haven't seen any update as to how the boy is doing. Thank goodness for the officer's actions.

@@lakaiskates8064 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f62ViK-B38DRdZ8.html

@@rpkett he was screaming in the car on the way to the hospital.

FACT!

100 percent

Police officers don’t share their full names for privacy and safety reasons. You think knowing Dave’s full name is a good idea, it isn’t - ask Dave and his family.

@@lindap8101 I'm simply pointing out the hipocrysy of the media releasing his life story in a bad scenario, and not in a good one. I don't blame him for not releasing it himself

@@cnixon4444 Understood. The media can be bloodthirsty and irresponsible. But if an officer commits a crime they (police department) have to release his full name in accordance with law. If not, the officers’ names are mostly protected.

I saw on another video that the boy did survive but since he did, his name and details of his injuries were withheld. Also, the officer received a medal of Valor

@@justkim9827 This is something all parents need to talk with their kids about ... his screams in the car broke my heart ... I immediately went to visit my 6 year old grandson ... I pulled this up and we had a long talk on safety ... will most likely have many because he had questions on electricity ... thought it was just like flipping on a light switch ...

True

He didn't feel 120. Those are high voltage, between 7000 and 23,000 volts depending on their intended use. The wire was probably dead, not carrying the usual voltage, but those cables are super capacitive, he probably had the equivalent of a couple thousand volts for a split second as all the remaining energy dumped through him like a flash bulb on a camera.

@RKSNomad I never said he did? I said I did and it was horrible so I can't imagine what he went through implying that i understood it was much higher voltage.

⁠@@SirFloofy001I can relate to this too.. this didn’t happen to me, it happened to a friend. We were all kids, probably early 80’s. We didn’t have cellular phones nor did we have insta, or fb, not even my space, hell, we didn’t have computers! One of us had to run home and tell someone or call the police from a phone that had a cord, attached to the wall. It’s absolutely mind blowing how far we’ve come in technology ! Thankfully, our friends all helped him get to the hospital quickly that day. I hope he is doing well every day for the rest of his life ❤️‍🩹 I wish for Blake to come thru this stronger and healthier and thriving for all his days!!❤️‍🩹 I hope you see this one day Blake!!✌🏼

​@@RKSNomad well thankful for the kid, voltage is almost irrelevant. its the amperage that hurts and kills a person bub.... you can literally buy 1 million volt stun guns that actually have 1 million volts in them, they just hurt a bit. maybe do some research before you attempt to educate some one...

@chasejordan22 not entirely true, just what the school system says to simplify the danger. Check out electroBOOM. He has a great explanation of voltage and current and its dangers.

Yeah, like when the Hells Angel's do toy drives.

Stfu And don't turn this political this man risked his life the man did has nothing to do with police officer

This country also needs to see this so their children won’t cross a yellow warning takpe and end up like that kid. This could’ve been avoidable.

@@gilbert3152 Or when a hooker hires her felon brother to watch her kids.

Pretty sure police tax the citizens more than anything, followed by violating people’s rights. Then responding to all the Karen 911 calls. Arrest some vagrants and dopers. And least among them all is helping people and being a true hero. I commend this officer for doing what he did. It was outstanding. But it’s also not the norm for officers.

heartwarming?

You're watching the wrong video it seems, because that's definitely not what I saw

No, thank the first responders, god not included.

@@cthulhu5717 whatever satan

@@paulhubrich3655 lol what? I’m Cthulhu not Satan. Also in the Bible how many people does god kill bs Satan? Gods in the millions while Satan has like 5? Frankly god seems more like a demon then Satan does.

Another site said he fully recovered and the officer was awarded.

@@amymusick5455 Yeah, I saw that too. Said it happened in 2022.

it did not say he fully recovered@@amymusick5455

LOL. Was that intentional to say "only this level of shock"? We need natural selection again

Maybe middle school, not elementary, I think they’re too young to really understand what is happening here aside from loud noises and colors

You will traumatise the poor kids.

just showed both of my 6yr olds this. they now see the dangers of electricity. its only truamatising if your soft.@@gordonaliasme1104

These kids were elementary so I think elementary would be necessary. Maybe start it 3 - 12. IDK or get parent signatures first. I would have wanted things like this shown to my children. My youngest is in 6th grade and his school last year 5th grade these kids were bad. One girl in his class caught the girls bathroom on fire. So teaching them and actually showing them the consequences of doing certain things can cause horrible injury or death. When I was a kid 6th grade we had dare to keep kids drug free and police would come and teach us about drugs and gangs and show us gun violence and they showed some scary stuff but I guarantee it got through to some. Being real and honest is the best lesson. You make it a teachable moment. Just my opinion.

It was likely the police who put up the tape. My guess whoever gave the order to tape it off failed to have a man stationed there. The power company likely wouldn't tape it off, they would more likely have just cut the line

School was shut down for power outage. Kid was staying with relatives who didn’t get notified from school because they weren’t his guardians. Saw a line on the ground…. Darwin took the wheel

@@Justin.501 It doesnt change that a staff member or power company person should be there. It looked to me like the school is just there in the background. Though that may not be the case.

@@stephaniehowe0973 I do agree, as I’ve been that kid left to walk to school after my parents left for work not knowing I didn’t have school today. I showed up, no lights, no cars, and nothing. Thankfully I was walking distance.

@@Justin.501 🩷 I'm sorry. I walked to school K-8

Detroit Edison.

I dont believe that's how powerlines work. I doubt he'll lose his hands. You can see a better view of his hands in another video.

more important...why the hell are they still above ground...put them in the ground like a first world country...not some 3rd world shithole with exposed cables

Do you know the whole situation? Who knocked the pole down? Was it the police or the subject!

@@MiguelMathewsonstorm

I believe i saw something say it happened last year sometime. Kiddo recovered and officer that pulled him out got a medal.

The boy was listed in critical condition but is conscious and responding to stimuli, according to a local Detroit outlet. His 10-year old brother, who was trying to save him initially, received minor injuries and was released from the hospital. I haven't seen anything else updated since August 30th, except that the officers who saved him are receiving the Medal of Valor for their actions (September 27th), and no mention of the boy passing away...so I imagine he is doing okay.

I think because the child is a minor, details on his condition or recovery are kept very private to the outside except his family.

@@darrynpolwartThanks, I was going to look into it.

Yea I didn't see an update on the boy except he was in critical but stable condition. Would be nice to know he is ok.

Can aaaaaaanybody freaking explain WHAT happened here so we can all learn and this won’t happen again? Anyone?