SLIDELL, La. — The Slidell Police Department honored two men for rushing to help a motorcycle officer who was knocked off his ...

"I can't tell y'all how much I appreciate y'all," Walden told Masingill and Laughlin at the press conference on Thursday, where Laughlin and Masingill received the award.

After a violent crash left him injured in a ditch, two men with medical training stepped in an changed the officer's fate.

According to Slidell police, there is a heavy police presence at Boyet Jr. High School and Little Oak Middle School.