Miami cop's speed saves day at 5K -- and a man's life

BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ

On a warm April day, Miami City Treasurer Pete Chircut joined thousands of Miamians in the Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run through downtown.

Chircut, 61, briskly walked most of it, but near the end he decided to run.

It would be the last thing he remembered before regaining consciousness.

Done with work for the day, Miami police Sgt. Javier Ortiz was at the Häagen-Dazs in Bayside Marketplace, where he snacked on a waffle cone and chatted with a few other city officers, he said.

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