The baby wasn’t breathing.
That’s what Officer Desaussure saw when he reached the car — a newborn, just delivered, silent in the backseat. The mother had given birth moments before, somewhere on the side of a Cobb County road, because there hadn’t been time to make it to the hospital.
It was February 12, just after 5 p.m. Desaussure had been working a traffic stop when a man pulled up, frantic. His wife was in labor. The baby was coming. They weren’t going to make it…