NYPD Assistant Chief Aaron Edwards has emerged as a hero for our time. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch is the public official who promoted him to his current position. She must have seen something of what we all came to see over the weekend when he jumped the rail and tackled the wannabe ISIS bomber intending to murder and mangle the cops and the crowd outside Gracie Mansion. In the aftermath, Commissioner Tisch now wants us to hear what he and his colleague Sergeant Luis Navarro have to say. She presented them yesterday at a NYPD headquarters press conference.
The video clip below presents Chief Edwards. Humble, authentic, dedicated, he says it’s not about him. We can express this slight disagrement with Chief Edwards. It’s about his example. The related CBS News story is posted here.
“It was just instinct. I’m trying to get the bad guy.”
NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards, who has been hailed as a hero for leaping over a barricade and chasing down the Gracie Mansion bombing suspects on Saturday, says he doesn’t want that viral picture to be about him: “I want it to be… pic.twitter.com/tdcATu912v
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 11, 2026
