Officers across three New York City departments banded together to rescue a woman and her cat who were pulled out into the East River by rushing currents underneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
NYPD officers were the first to respond to reports of a woman in distress — with her white cat in tow — in the river just before 3 p.m. last Thursday.
The cops, alongside FDNY and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation officers, reached the shore near the end of the Brooklyn Bridge and lobbed a lifesaver into the brackish waters.
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