HJR 178 Summary

• Recognizes Officer Noel Hall of the Birmingham Police Department as a nominee for the 2015 Alabama Legislative Medal of Honor for Law Enforcement, the state's highest law enforcement award.

• Officer Hall was off-duty shopping in Trussville, Alabama on November 16, 2014, when he witnessed an armed robbery and drew his weapon to confront an armed gunman holding a store clerk at gunpoint.

• Hall strategically positioned himself to protect multiple civilians in danger, including customers, his girlfriend, and two children, while monitoring the suspect without escalating violence.

• When two children began entering the store, Hall emerged from concealment and confronted the gunman, ordering him to drop his weapon; the suspect fled and was later apprehended by Trussville Police.

• The resolution directs that Officer Hall receive a copy of the resolution as evidence of the legislature's admiration and esteem for his demonstrated courage, quick thinking, and willingness to risk his life to protect others.