CLEVELAND (WJW) - Newly released video shows police officers teaming up to save a man on Tuesday who was in danger of drowning in the Wade Park Lagoon near the Cleveland Museum of Art.

University Circle police were alerted by officers from the University Hospitals Main Campus that a man, who was being treated for a mental health crisis, walked away from the hospital, jumped into the Wade Lagoon, and was struggling in the water.

On police body camera video, officers and medical personnel can be heard telling the victim, "Come this way, come on, we're just here to help you, man."

Among those responding to the scene was University Circle Patrolman Jeff Ridler.

"He started to say he wasn't able to swim or anything like that, and he did start to go up and down, the drowning motion," Ridler

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