Man rescues police officer from burning car, explains: "There is value in every human life"
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 24 June 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JUNE 24, 2020
A man who has experienced injustice in the past rescued a police officer from a burning car. Today's podcast tells his story, then we focus on the true source of our personal worth and the path to sharing a love that changes the world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.5 | There is value in every human life. |
| 0:22.6 | We are all children of God, and I can't imagine just watching anyone burn. |
| 0:27.8 | No matter what other people have done to me, or other officers, I thought, this guy deserves |
| 0:32.8 | to make it home safely to his family. |
| 0:35.3 | This is how Dylan McLeigh of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, describes his |
| 0:39.3 | actions to rescue a police officer from a mangled police car as flames were spreading into the cabin. |
| 0:45.8 | Police officials have credited McLea with saving the life of Officer Jay Hanley. |
| 0:51.0 | Uniontown Police Lieutenant Tomic Colensick's voice cracked, as he told reporters at the |
| 0:56.2 | scene, Dylan actually said, I'm not going to let him die. There's just no words to describe, you know? |
| 1:03.1 | Here's what made Dylan McLee's bravery especially unusual. He has been the victim of injustice in the |
| 1:09.1 | past. McLee, who is black, spent a year in jail |
| 1:12.9 | after an incident in March 2016, before a jury acquitted him of all charges after reviewing |
| 1:19.1 | security video. That was a year away from his children and his mother, who was ill at the time, |
| 1:25.2 | and passed away last year. He had another run-in with officers a few months ago, |
| 1:30.4 | when he ran from a porch gathering after officers in plain clothes and vests |
| 1:34.8 | approached with guns drawn. |
| 1:37.1 | He said they did not announce they were officers, |
| 1:39.9 | and that he stopped running and put his hands behind his head |
| 1:42.7 | when they said they were police. |
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