NYPD Officer Ronald Kennedy speaks about the rescue with WABC
The NYPD cop - who's being hailed as a hero after he 'MacGyver'd' a potato chip bag and tape to save a stabbing victim's life - said he never tried unorthodox move before.
On July 7, a man - later identified as Dylan Ubiles, 28 - was stabbed in the chest in south Harlem and stumbled until he collapsed in front of a deli on Lenox Avenue.
Scared onlookers flagged down NYPD officers in the area, including Officer Ronald Kennedy, who doubles his service duty as a volunteer firefighter with EMT training.
He can be heard in bodycam footage released late last week yelling to Good Samaritan onlookers to grab potato chips and tape, which he secured over the victim's wound.
(left to right) NYPD Officers David Galindez, Ronald Kennedy and Matthew Grieve answer questions for a WABC interview about Kennedy's quick-thinking life-saving action and the team work among the three officers.
Bystander Ricardo Gonzalez was the one who ran inside to get the bag of chips used to save a stabbing victim's life
The quick-thinking cop emptied a bag of potato chips and used duct tape to seal the wound
The attending physician at Harlem Hospital told the NYPD that Kennedy's actions likely saved the man's life
'We requested a bag of potato chips and some tape, "cause we knew right away that we needed to seal the chest," Officer Kennedy said at a Tuesday press conference, according to the New York Post.
'There was a puncture wound there … we didn’t want the air going in it, collapsing his lung,' he said.
The size, square edges and material would allow air to pass through.
Officer David Galindez, who arrested the alleged attacker Erick Rodriguez, 38, told The Post he thought it was 'crazy' to use a chip bag, but only for a 'split second.'
'I know [Kennedy] has prior EMT experience, and I knew that was going to work,' Officer Matthew Grieve, Kennedy’s partner, told The New York Post.
'It had an immediate effect,' Grieve said.
The NYPD said a Harlem Hospital physician credited Kennedy with saving man's life.
Officer David Galindez, who arrested the alleged attacker Erick Rodriguez, 38, told The Post he thought it was 'crazy' to use a chip bag, but only for a 'split second'
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