A hero police officer in upstate New York is credited with a toddler's dramatic rescue, thanks to his rapid response.

Sgt. Patrick Hildenbrand, 35, of the Red Hook, N.Y., Police Department, thought he was going to pull over a speeding driver. Instead the officer encountered a frantic father carrying the lifeless body of his 22-month-old son.

After Matthew Morgan suffered a seizure and collapsed on Monday, his father, Matt, grabbed his body to drive him to the nearest hospital, ABC station WABC-TV reported. The elder Morgan was speeding through the Dutchess County Village of Red Hook, when he and Hildenbrand spotted each other.

"It was not a typical traffic stop," Hildenbrand told ABC News, explaining that the father slammed on his brakes when he saw the police officer's SUV.

"He has a young boy in his hands and he's running at me, yelling at me, his son is not breathing. 'I think my son is dead, my son is not breathing,'" Hildenbrand said.

Morgan hoped the police officer could drive the baby to the hospital quickly so doctors could save his son's life.

"I was going and then he hit his lights and then as soon as I seen that, I stopped and I ran to his car. You get through traffic a lot faster," the father, 19, told WABC-TV.

An officer for nine years and a former firefighter of 17 years, Hildenbrand said his instincts and training kicked in after the three hopped in the police SUV. After Hildenbrand asked the father where he came from, the officer said he made a split-second decision to drive directly to the hospital instead of waiting for an ambulance to arrive.

"I don't live too far from him, so I knew time was of the essence," Hildenbrand said. "I had to get to the hospital as soon as possible."

While Hildenbrand drove to the hospital with Morgan and his son in the backseat, behind a partition, the officer simultaneously performed CPR on the boy.

"I reached my hand back here as I'm driving, moved my body over and started doing all the compressions and feeling for a pulse while I could still operate the vehicle," Hildenbrand said.

When they arrived at the hospital, Hildenbrand continued CPR while he carried the boy to doctors.

"The medical staff did their stuff and the baby started crying," Hildenbrand said.

The officer said he doesn't consider himself a hero.

"A lot of cops do crazy things to save peoples' lives and don't get recognized," he said.

But the emergency room physician said he feels otherwise.

"I really don't think this child would be here today if it wasn't for those efforts. I think the key is when you can start rescue CPR out in the community it certainly, the earlier you start it the better outcomes you have," Dr. John Sabia of Northern Dutchess Hospital told WABC-TV.

Morgan could not be reached for comment by ABC News.

Doctors still aren't sure what caused Matthew to collapse, but he is back at home thanks to the rescue efforts of a police officer.

"It was fast and stressful," Hildenbrand said.

In a striking public rebuke, the Obama administration warned Israel on Wednesday that plans for a controversial new housing project in east Jerusalem would distance Israel from "even its closest allies" and raise questions about its commitment to seeking peace with Palestinians.

The harsh criticism came just hours after President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House. Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said the president privately raised his concerns with Netanyahu though the two leaders made no mention of the matter in their public comments to reporters.

"This development will only draw condemnation from the international community," Earnest said. "It also would call into question Israel's ultimate commitment to a peaceful negotiated settlement with the Palestinians."

Netanyahu pushed back against the criticism, according to reporters traveling with him Wednesday, saying that people should have all of the information before making such statements. He also said that while Obama did raise the issue of settlements in their meeting, the discussion did not focus on specific cases.

An Israeli official confirmed the accuracy of Netanyahu's comments to his traveling press corps. The official would discuss the matter only on condition of anonymity.

The new 2,500 unit project that stoked U.S. anger is contentious because it would complete a band of Jewish areas that separate Jerusalem from nearby Bethlehem. The U.S. has repeatedly criticized Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, casting it as damaging to efforts to secure an elusive peace accord with the Palestinians.

The White House also condemned what it called the recent occupation of residential buildings in Silwan, an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem where several hundred hard-line Israeli settlers have moved in recent years. Earnest called the move was "provocative" and said it would "escalate tensions at a moment when those tensions have already been high."

Appearing before reporters earlier, Obama and Netanyahu betrayed little of the U.S. displeasure projected by the White House spokesman, as well as officials at the State Department. While the two leaders have long had a tense relationship, each took a polite and cordial tone in their brief public remarks.

Still, areas of discord were evident, most notably Obama's frustration with Palestinian civilian deaths in during the summer war in Gaza and Israel's wariness of U.S.-led nuclear negotiations with Iran.

Sitting alongside Netanyahu, Obama said leaders must "find ways to change the status quo so that both Israel citizens are safe in their own homes, and schoolchildren in their schools, from the possibility of rocket fire but also that we don't have the tragedy of Palestinian children being killed as well."

More than 2,100 Palestinians — the vast majority of them civilians, according to the United Nations — and more than 70 Israelis were killed during the 50-day war in Gaza.

Officials said much of Obama and Netanyahu's private discussions centered on Iran. The U.S. and its negotiating partners — Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China — have until Nov. 24 to reach a deal with Iran on its nuclear program, and all sides say significant gaps remain.

Code of Hammurabi

     “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” This phrase, or shortened variations of it, have been used for countless years, decades, and even centuries by humans around the world; it has even found a home in the Christian religious text known as The Bible. But where exactly did this saying come from and exactly how old is it?
     
     Around the year 1790B.C, King Hammurabi of the Babylon established an extensive set of legal codes known today as the Code of Hammurabi. In total 282 laws were established by Hammurabi and during the time of the Babylonian Empire, were written using a system known as cuneiform on large, black pillars made of diorite that stood a little over eight feet in height.  These pillars were typically found throughout large cities in the empire in order for the populace to become educated on the good and the bad that had been decreed by their king. A vast majority of laws deal with issues relevant to the period such as agriculture and family with all the laws revolving around the concept of “an eye for an eye”, as in a punishment or binding agreement equal to the offense committed. Here is an excerpt that reflects this idea:

“8. If anyone steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirtyfold; if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death.”

     So for what purpose did Hammurabi feel the need to create a legal system? When Hammurabi came to power, he managed to absorb and conquer surrounding villages, farming communities, and other city-states and place them under Babylonian rule. This meant that new people with their own cultures/beliefs were being mixed with the people of Babylon and so needed a way to treat everybody fairly and keep a sense of unity as one.  This keen thinking by the king led to the creation of a uniformed code of laws which would apply to everybody; experts were sent around the kingdom to gather the existing laws each area currently were enforcing and refined many of them to establish this known set of laws.  Hammurabi himself even stated that he wants "to make justice visible in the land, to destroy the wicked person and the evil-doer, that the strong might not injure the weak."

     The efforts of Hammurabi to create a widely accessible and known code of laws also shows us what life was like during ancient Babylonian times. As pointed out earlier, a majority of laws deal with both family and agriculture. Not only were these important concepts for Babylon but other civilizations when discussing ancient history such as Egypt and Life all but revolved around maintaining and taking care of crops and livestock as it was a necessity in order to eat, produce goods like furs, and even used for trade and taxes. Family was another important factor due to the ability of carrying on the family name and tree along with producing enough children in order to help work the family farm.

…whether or not the allegedly well-intentioned reformers of Moms Demand Action and GunFreeZone.net are aware of it, they are flirting with disaster. On the surface, Ann Marie’s grubby little hope that police will eventually “have a run in with one of these clowns” may appear to be less threatening than was Ronald Ritchie’s fatal mendacity. But, if Marie were successful, the end result would likely be the same. There is no kind way of putting this, I’m afraid: Ultimately, what we are seeing on the fringes of the gun-control movement is the suggestion that American citizens be “SWATted” for their choices — that, in the name of a political disagreement, one party calls the cops on another and, under false pretenses, puts them in harm’s way. Is this reconcilable with “common sense” change?

“You’re putting the police in a situation where to the best of their knowledge the call is coming from inside the house,” Owens explains. “In the worst case, the perpetrator will say, ‘I’ve killed my wife and kids; come get me if you can.’” In other instances, he will exaggerate or twist the truth to lure authorities into a situation that is not at all as it has been described. In all cases, however, the intention is the same: To harm or to scare the target. Real-world examples abound.