I love to bring you a good, heartwarming, uplifting story whenever I can, and I’ve definitely got one for you today! Meet Detective Michael Greaney. Greaney was simply on his way to work in rush hour traffic when he saw a black SUV speeding in the emergency shoulder lane. He pulled the car over and the father said his baby was choking. Greaney immediately took action and cleared the throat and got the baby girl breathing again. What a miracle! Watch here: NEW: NYPD detective saves the life of a choking baby on his way to work in rush hour traffic. Detective First Grade Michael Greaney was in traffic when he saw a black SUV speeding in the emergency shoulder lane. Greaney turned on the lights of his unmarked car and… pic.twitter.com/A3nDAG1ToB — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 11, 2025 NEW: NYPD detective saves the life of a choking baby on his way to work in rush hour traffic. Detective First Grade Michael Greaney was in traffic when he saw a black SUV speeding in the emergency shoulder lane. Greaney turned on the lights of his unmarked car and pulled over the BMW to see what was going on. “My baby’s choking,” the panicked father said. Greaney jumped into action, pulling the child out of the car and hitting the baby girl on the back, clearing her throat and allowing her to breathe again. Greaney has worked for the NYPD for 17 years. The baby is doing well, according to the father, who spoke with the New York Post. Hero! Detective Greaney was later interviewed on News Nation: Here are more details on the heroic rescue, from the NY Post: Det. First Grade Michael Greaney, 40 — a dad of two toddlers — was heading to work at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday when he spotted a BMW speeding down the shoulder of the Bronx River Parkway, he told The Post Friday. “I followed the vehicle, turned my lights on,” he said. “[The dad] rolled down his window and yelled, ‘My baby’s choking!’” The quick-thinking cop grabbed the 8-month-old girl out of her car seat, flipped her over and hit her a dozen times on the back “until something dislodged.” “I didn’t see anything or feel anything come out, but she let out a cough, like she had the relief,” said Greaney, who works in the office of the Chief of Detectives. “She let out a little cry, which obviously we know that If you’re talking or crying, you’re not choking. So that [was] a good sign,” he said. Greaney — who has a 3-year old and a 1-and-a-half year-old — stayed calm in the moment but said he understands how horrified the fellow father must have been. “[There are] definitely all sorts of emotion, panic, shock, terrified and everything,” he said. “So I’m glad that I was able to relieve him of those emotions, and I’m happy that she’s gonna be here for Christmas.” Once the baby was breathing again, a nurse pulled over to help, he said. “She said, ‘She’s all good. She’s breathing. You can give her back to dad,’” Greaney recalled. “He just said, ‘Thank you,’ and I told him to go home and watch a YouTube video on how to do the Heimlich, so if this ever happens again, he can clear it himself,” he said. “I set her back into the car seat, and I took off,” said Greaney — who later learned dramatic footage of him saving the baby’s life had gone viral. “I told a couple people. I didn’t think it was gonna go like this, no way,” he said. Greaney said he later spoke to the girl’s dad, who told him that she was doing just fine. “I feel good… that I saved her,” he said — but the fact that it was caught on camera is the only part that’s rare.