After that, Mr. Lowe hugged Mr. Granados-Diaz for at least 20 seconds, the footage showed. “Pretty crazy situation,” Mr. Lowe, a former football player for the University of Oregon and former analyst for the Philadelphia Eagles and the San Francisco 49ers, said in a news conference in May, according to KOIN. I saw the look in his face, the look in his eyes. “Obviously, he broke down and I just wanted to let him know that I was there for him,” Mr. Lowe said. Bruce Alexander, who has worked in law enforcement, government counterterrorism and private security for 30 years, said every second is critical in the type of threat that Mr. Lowe defused.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2019 17:48 UTC