More than two dozen Baltimore police officers received awards on Wednesday for saving lives and performing other heroic acts.
They included Officers Jerome Shaurette and Curtis McMillion (pictured from left to right in the photo by The Sun's Lloyd Fox), who were involved in a wild-west like shootout after responding to a routine domestic call. Both were wounded but managed to returned fire.
Two other officers, Kimberly Hanline and Monica Nashan, were awarded life saving medals for helping save 5-year-old Raven Wyatt, who was shot in the head last summer on South Pulaski Street. She survived, in part because of the work thiese two officers did in performing CPR and holding her near life-less body until paramedics arrived.
After the ceremony, Hanline told me how after work she rushed home to hug her son. "He just looked at me, but he knew that I had cried," she said.
A touching moment you don't often see from cops.
Here is a complete program with details of all the awards (my apologies for the picture):