Overview
- Body-worn camera footage shows a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer lunging to grab a woman from a bridge ledge.
- The intervention happened Friday, the day after Christmas, on I-81 over the Holston River in Tennessee.
- THP credited a coordinated response that included seven THP units, Sullivan County agencies, Kingsport Police, EMS, TDOT, State Parks, and a TWRA boat positioned below.
- The woman was placed in an ambulance for evaluation, and authorities have not released her name.
- In a Facebook post, THP emphasized holiday-related mental-health strains and directed people to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.