NYPD cop saves stabbing victim with potato chip bag and tape

A quick-thinking cop made like MacGyver to save the life of a Harlem stabbing victim. Police Officer Ronald Kennedy covered a gaping chest wound with a potato chip bag and some tape after a 29-year-old homeless man was knifed in the chest and collapsed outside a bodega on Lenox Ave. and Malcolm X Blvd. in Harlem at 10:15 p.m. on July 7, cops said. “Go get me a bag of potato chips right now!” the four-year NYPD veteran screamed at a bystander in a wild scene captured by an NYPD body camera and released by the department. “He caught me in my lung,” the bleeding victim said weakly. “I know ... I know. Just relax,” Kennedy assured the man as he peered under his blood-stained shirt. When the bystander rushed back outside with a $2 bag of Lays potato chips, Kennedy ripped it open, dumped out the contents and called for someone to go back inside the bodega and find some tape. Kennedy and pair of bystanders laid the victim on the ground, where the cop placed the bag on the wound and taped it up, easing the man’s