Video shows Pembroke Pines cop saving choking man at Cuban restaurant

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — Video shows a Pembroke Pines Police Department officer stepping in to save a man who was choking inside a local Cuban restaurant last weekend.

Police said Officer Ed Hooper and other officers were alerted Saturday by staff members at La Caretta, located at 301 N. University Dr., that a man inside the restaurant was choking.

Employees and bystanders had already begun performing back blows and abdominal thrusts when Hooper took over…

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