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A Sterling Heights police officer is being celebrated for his life-saving actions on a baby boy who had stopped breathing after choking in a Walmart store.

Officer Edwar Talia responded to the Walmart on Van Dyke Avenue on Nov. 1 at around 8:30 p.m. for a report of a 5-month-old infant who was having trouble breathing.

Newly released bodycam video showed Talia rushing into the Walmart to find the distraught mother with her child, who appeared not to be breathing. He began giving continuous back blows to the infant, which cleared the airway and allowed the child to breathe on his own again.

“I rushed in there — the doors could not open fast enough,” Talia told WXYZ-TV (Channel 7)

The department praised Talia’s calm actions.

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