--- title: Watch a Handcuffed Teenager Save Police Officer Having a Heart Attack description: Jamal Rutledge will be honored at an award ceremony on Jan. 21 canonical: https://time.com/3668834/handcuffed-teenager-rescue-police-officer-florida/ author: Naina Bajekal article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-15T13:05:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:58.572Z og:title: Watch a Handcuffed Teenager Save Police Officer Having a Heart Attack og:description: Jamal Rutledge will be honored at an award ceremony on Jan. 21 og:url: https://time.com/3668834/handcuffed-teenager-rescue-police-officer-florida/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Handcuffed Teenager Save Police Officer Having a Heart Attack twitter:description: Jamal Rutledge will be honored at an award ceremony on Jan. 21 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Handcuffed Teenager Save a Policeman Having a Heart Attack  by [Naina Bajekal](/author/naina-bajekal/)  ## Naina Bajekal Bajekal was executive editor and international editor at TIME. Jan 15, 2015 1:05 PM CUT  by [Naina Bajekal](/author/naina-bajekal/)  ## Naina Bajekal Bajekal was executive editor and international editor at TIME. Jan 15, 2015 1:05 PM CUT Footage from a police station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has revealed a teenage boy coming to the help of a policeman who collapsed with a heart attack after arresting him. 17-year-old Jamal Rutledge was sitting handcuffed on Sept.10 awaiting processing on charges of allegedly violating his parole, when Officer Franklin Foulks, the man who had arrested him, fell to the ground and started clutching at his chest. Rutledge walks over to check on the police officer before kicking at the security gate and shouting for help, which soon arrived. Foulks was then taken to hospital where he was successfully treated. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department said quick action by Rutledge and three other officers saved Foulks’ life. All four men will be commended publicly later in January at a meeting of the Fort Lauderdale City Commission. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3668834/handcuffed-teenager-rescue-police-officer-florida/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3668834/handcuffed-teenager-rescue-police-officer-florida/"},"headline":"Watch a Handcuffed Teenager Save a Policeman Having a Heart Attack","datePublished":"2015-01-15T13:05:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:58.572Z","description":"Jamal Rutledge will be honored at an award ceremony on Jan. 21","url":"https://time.com/3668834/handcuffed-teenager-rescue-police-officer-florida/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Naina Bajekal","jobTitle":"Bajekal was executive editor and international editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/naina-bajekal/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3668834/handcuffed-teenager-rescue-police-officer-florida/","name":"Watch a Handcuffed Teenager Save a Policeman Having a Heart Attack"}}]}] ```