{"id":87175,"date":"2022-06-16T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-talks-receiving-citizens-award-for-bravery\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T06:30:00","slug":"man-talks-receiving-citizens-award-for-bravery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-talks-receiving-citizens-award-for-bravery\/","title":{"rendered":"Man talks receiving Citizen’s Award for Bravery"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Juneau man was awarded the Citizen’s Award for Bravery by the Juneau Police Department during their annual awards ceremony last week<\/a> for actions he took in February of 2021.<\/p>\n

On that cold, foul-weather day, Robert Partin, who works in the behavioral health department at Bartlett Regional Hospital, directed traffic around officers who were trying to detain a suspect near the intersection of Egan Drive and Channel Drive. <\/p>\n

“My wife was mentioning it to me because she had called 911 on someone on the road,” Partin said. “As I got to the bottom of Hospital Drive I saw them running, and the squad cars.”<\/p>\n

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Partin, a Marine infantry veteran, said he’s not unused to jumping into situations.<\/p>\n

“I had originally seen them take the individual down. I noticed there were people driving by focused solely on that. There was potential incidents. I realized it’d be more beneficial for me to stand by and direct traffic,” Partin said. “I’m kind of used to jumping into things. That last year, there were a few incidents with traffic.”<\/p>\n

Partin got out of his car and directed cars around officers while they worked to get the subject into a squad car.<\/p>\n

“My biggest concern was that there was snow on the ground,” Partin said. “This was one of the worst winters we’ve had in a while.”<\/p>\n

Partin said he was concerned by passersby, many of whom were pulling out their phones to take photos or videos while still driving.<\/p>\n

“The biggest surprise is seeing how people handle emergencies, driving recklessly,” Partin said.<\/p>\n

Partin said he didn’t think much of the incident afterward, and would have put it completely in the past, if someone hadn’t tagged him in a video of the incident. JPD later contacted him, before presenting him with the Citizen’s Award for Bravery last Thursday.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t really expect anything,” Partin said.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at 757-621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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