DORAL, Fla. — Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Deputy Leonard “Leo” Cantave, a military veteran, wore a suit and used a wheelchair to get on stage during a ceremony on Thursday in Doral.
Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz awarded Cantave, a former corrections officer, with the agency’s Lifesaving Award, Gold Medal of Valor, Purple Heart, and Distinguished Deputy of the Month.
“I was just doing my job,” Cantave said while holding a microphone during the ceremony. His colleagues — who described him as a hero after a driver struck him on Dec. 27 on the Turnpike — disagreed…