Cops Break Into Car With 2 Sobbing Children Trapped In 117-Degree Heat Outside Atlanta Mall

[Sugar Cookie]

Bodycam video shows cops smashing the window of a deadly hot car in Georgia to rescue two toddlers who were locked inside.

The young children were trapped in the vehicle, where temperatures reached 117 degrees, for more than 40 minutes outside Cumberland Mall in Atlanta last month before a passerby called 911, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.

“The windows are cracked, but I don’t think that’s right. We just came out of Dick’s and I heard kids crying,” the woman told the dispatcher.

Police smashed the car’s driver side window and pulled the kids from the triple digit heat, according to police body camera footage published by KGNS TV.

“It’s ok, baby. Oh you’re hot,” an officer tells one of the tots during the heart-wrenching rescue.

J’quawn Dixon was arrested after he returned from inside the mall and was charged with two felony counts of child cruelty.

Police officers break into car with two sobbing children trapped in 117-degree heat outside mall: video

Two young children in Georgia were rescued from a hot car in a mall parking lot last month thanks to bystanders who called 911 after hearing crying.

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[Symmachus]

The hero cops likely saved those children's lives.

 

[BuffettGirl]

When I was a freshman and sophomore in high school, Cumberland Mall was one of my three Mall related happy places (Phipps Plaza and Lennox Mall were the other two, oh Perimeter Mall was good too!) and never once did we leave younger kids alone and unattended at the mall in the parking lot. WTF is WRONG with people? It's fucking SUMMER, in ATLANTA. It's fucking HOT!!! I've mentioned before that we liked taking Spud (William), my then BF's family's foster child) to the mall so we could catch people's reactions to two butt-white teenagers wandering the mall with a tiny little black baby, which I'm sorry, but damn folks in the South are judgy AF! It was a welcome distraction to Spud's constant crying as he was born drug addicted. We did that at Cumberland Mall. What did this loser need SO badly from Dick's that he just HAD to go to the Mall and leave his two babies in the car? He hardly looks like he's training for the Olympics. NOTHING, that's WHAT!

 

[runninfawn]

The hero cops likely saved those children's lives.

but the unsong hero is really the passerby that made the call and stayed there till the cops got there .. i wonder how many others heard those babies' cry and didn't bother to investigate?? or didn't want to be bothered at all and went on their merry way???

 

[Sugar Cookie]

He is probably more upset about his broken windows then those children being traumatized.