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Baltimore, Maryland, is sadly, one of those towns that doesn’t have much appreciation for law enforcement. In 2020, they cut an astounding $22 million from the police budget, and that summer, City Hall was surrounded by crowds of protesters demanding that all funding for city police be cut.
On Tuesday, two Maryland Transportation Authority officers, realizing that the MV Dali was about to hit the Francis Scott Key bridge, acted fast to close the bridge and doubtlessly saved lives. The Western Journal contributor and former Republican campaign worker Rachel M. Emmanuel described how it’s certain no throngs of people will turn out to recognize their feat.
The impact from the massive cargo vessel caused the entire 1.6-mile-long bridge to catastrophically collapse.
According to The Baltimore Banner, the Dali sent a distress signal as it began to lose power, which was picked up by the Coast Guard.
Maryland Transportation Authority Police then stepped in to contain the situation.
The officers were monitoring the stricken container ship Dali as it experienced a power failure and drifted disastrously off course towards the Key Bridge.
She continued:
At 1:27 a.m., a call came over the dispatch radio that the Singapore-flagged Dali cargo vessel had lost steering and was on a collision course with the bridge. “There’s a ship approaching that just lost their steering. So until they get that under control we gotta stop all traffic,” the dispatch officer stated over the radio.
A second officer quickly moved into position on the south end and successfully stopped northbound traffic.
These two officers have not (yet) been named, but we can hope that they will get the recognition they deserve for quick thinking and quick action in a terrible circumstance.
