May 28, 2026 · 3 min · 7 segments
LAPD Officer David Marroquin used his alertness and basic first responder training to save the life of a colleague! He noticed the man struggling to breath, choking on some food. With urgency and…
David MarroquinGuest
Heather JordanHostYou're in the right place at the right time with the right skills to save a life.
Oftentimes, we think of law enforcement going above and beyond, using their experience and skills to help keep us safe and secure.
Sometimes all it takes is being alert, having a sense of urgency, and basic first responder training, like the Heimlich maneuver, to make a big impact.
LAPD Officer David Marroquin was at a work event when he noticed a colleague struggling to breathe during lunch.
He gets up and walks away, and he walks sort of behind the partition, so I can't see him, but I start to hear what sounded like choking.
I looked over the partition, and I see Bing sort of bent over and grabbing his neck and struggling to breathe.
He, he had sort of, like, deer in the headlights look, and I just immediately jumped up, and I, I went around him, and I performed a, a Heimlich maneuver on Bing.
As I was doing this, um, I was a little lower than I should've been, and, you know, Bing was saying something like, "Higher, higher." So I brought my hands up a little higher to closer to his sternum and, and I continued doing the Heimlich maneuver, uh, until he was able to clear the blockage from his airway.
Bing told me that he's extremely grateful for the brave people in uniform, like Officer Marroquin, who saved his life that day.
I've always had a respect for law enforcement.
I, I've been working on and off with law enforcement a lot of my career.
Everybody in those departments, uh, you know, are amazing people, and they risk their lives every day.
It just...
Oh, sorry, [laughs] getting emotional.
It just, um...
I was lucky that day that David was there.
You know, he says he believes anyone in that situation would've helped out like he did, and he reminds us that we all can be ready for situations like this.
You know, I think it is incumbent upon us as community members to just be a little trained up on survival skills or how to save somebody's life through a Heimlich maneuver or CPR because you never know.
You're in the right place at the right time with the right skills to save a life.
Oftentimes, we think of law enforcement going above and beyond, using their experience and skills to help keep us safe and secure.
Sometimes all it takes is being alert, having a sense of urgency, and basic first responder training, like the Heimlich maneuver, to make a big impact.
LAPD Officer David Marroquin was at a work event when he noticed a colleague struggling to breathe during lunch.
He gets up and walks away, and he walks sort of behind the partition, so I can't see him, but I start to hear what sounded like choking.
I looked over the partition, and I see Bing sort of bent over and grabbing his neck and struggling to breathe.
He, he had sort of, like, deer in the headlights look, and I just immediately jumped up, and I, I went around him, and I performed a, a Heimlich maneuver on Bing.
As I was doing this, um, I was a little lower than I should've been, and, you know, Bing was saying something like, "Higher, higher." So I brought my hands up a little higher to closer to his sternum and, and I continued doing the Heimlich maneuver, uh, until he was able to clear the blockage from his airway.
Bing told me that he's extremely grateful for the brave people in uniform, like Officer Marroquin, who saved his life that day.
I've always had a respect for law enforcement.
I, I've been working on and off with law enforcement a lot of my career.
Everybody in those departments, uh, you know, are amazing people, and they risk their lives every day.
It just...
Oh, sorry, [laughs] getting emotional.
It just, um...
I was lucky that day that David was there.
You know, he says he believes anyone in that situation would've helped out like he did, and he reminds us that we all can be ready for situations like this.
You know, I think it is incumbent upon us as community members to just be a little trained up on survival skills or how to save somebody's life through a Heimlich maneuver or CPR because you never know.
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