olice lay down their lives willingly to fulfill their duty as a police officer.
And Hastings-on-Hudson, NY Police Officer Jessie Ferreira Cavallo did just that over the weekend.
Cavallo was on her way to work in the village when she saw a boy running along Saw Mill River Parkway in Yonkers.

With horror, she said she watched the boy climb up over a guardrail and jump several feet from an overpass onto the concrete below.