Bodycam footage shows Springfield police officers performing CPR to save baby
Updated 1:24 PM;
Today 10:04 AM
Springfield police officers Francisco Luna, Luis Delgado and Josue Cruz are credited with saving the life of the 3-month old baby who stopped breathing.
In the background is Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno.
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SPRINGFIELD The Springfield Police Department on Wednesday released body camera footage showing a dramatic effort by three officers performing CPR to save a baby who stopped breathing.
The 4-minute video shows officers Josue Cruz, Luis Delgado and Francisco Luna responding to a 911 call on April 20 to a home in the Mason Square area. The child’s mother called for help after finding her 3-month old son had stopped breathing and was turning blue.
‘There is no other choice,’ DA Anthony Gulluni says of decision to sue Justice Department for records on alleged Springfield police misconduct
Updated May 19, 6:30 PM;
Posted May 19, 5:54 PM
Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni, pictured in early 2019. (The Republican file photo)
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SPRINGFIELD Faced with what he describes as a lack of cooperation from federal officials, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking records from the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston that could identify police officers who used excessive force and then lied about it.
The suit stems from last summer’s U.S. Department of Justice report on the Springfield Police Department’s narcotics unit. Based on a two-year investigation, the report outlined numerous allegations of city police officers physically abusing suspects and filing false reports, and supervisors looking the other way. The report was met with considerable public outcry, as well
Springfield Police remember 17 officers who died in line of duty in annual memorial
Updated May 12, 2021;
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SPRINGFIELD Lined up parallel to the monument to the 17 police officers killed in the line of duty was the future of law enforcement for the city.
Among the families of officers killed on the job, city politicians and senior officers, Police Commissioner Cheryl C. Clapprood welcomed the 31 new officers who joined the department in April after their graduation from the 26-week Springfield Police Academy.
“It’s important, I felt, that they be here,” she said. “I want them to know who gave the ultimate sacrifice and I wanted them to know, when it does happen, it’s something you never forget and it’s something you never recover from.”
Springfield police officers Giselle Made, Natasha Rodriguez celebrate early Mother’s Day with baby they helped deliver
Updated May 06, 2021;
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On Thursday, the two officers made the time.
Made and Rodriguez paid a surprise visit to Millan’s Pine Point home to deliver some flowers as an early Mother’s Day present, and to finally pose for that picture.
The first time they met Millan, it was part of another delivery. On the morning of Nov. 4, they helped Millan give birth to Avril inside her Margerie Street home.
“Oh, my gosh!” Millan said as Made and Rodriguez, accompanied by Police Commissioner Cheryl C. Clapprood, walked into her driveway as she was unloading her car.