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TIL of Officer Norem. He responded to a call about a suicidal man trying to jump over the overpass fence into the traffic below. Noren grabbed the guy’s leg and refused to let him go - even when the suicidal man took out a knife stabbed Norem several times, he still held on until help arrived.

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