HJR303 Summary

• Recognizes and honors 11 Birmingham Police Department officers as nominees for the 2017 Alabama Legislative Medal of Honor for Law Enforcement.

• Officers Wytasha Carter, Wallace Russell, Shaun Deane, Thomas Lucas, John Swinney, Marlon Tolliver, Stephen Moore, Frederick Wesley, Frank Alexander, Vonric Slaughter, and Paul Irwin responded to a roof collapse on April 14, 2017 with two children trapped inside.

• Officers manually uncovered and rescued a five-year-old girl from inside a couch and worked to extract a second child from debris while preventing falling materials from causing additional harm.

• Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service provided resuscitation efforts that saved the second child's life; without the officers' and firefighters' coordinated actions, both children would have died.

• House adopted resolution on April 20, 2017; Senate adopted on April 27, 2017; officers to receive copies of the resolution as evidence of legislative admiration and esteem.