Footage from Officer Michal Banasiak's bodycam shows a young man in a metal health crisis in the process of being rescued from a ledge atop a six-story parkade in Sarasota, Fla. Sarasota Police Department
The officers arrived in silence—no lights, no sirens, no jarring footsteps. They parked discretely and approached the young man in a mental health crisis about to jump from the sixth floor of a parkade in Sarasota, Florida.
And there was Officer Michal Banasiak, already present on the scene, putting his crisis intervention training to good use.
Michael Wing is a writer and editor based in Calgary, Canada, where he was born and educated in the arts. He writes mainly on culture, human interest, and trending news.
