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'Be the help': Coon Rapids cop <br />teaches CPR in Heart Safe <br />campaign <br />In three years, Coon Rapids police officer Bryan Platz and volunteers have trained <br />more than 13,000 people to perform hands -only CPR and use an AED, a medical <br />device to shock a cardiac arrest victim back to life. <br />By Shannon Prather Star Tribune <br />FEBRi 1R1, 16, 2016 — 7:44 all <br />Photos by REN&#xc9;E JONES SCHNEIDER &#x2022; reneejones@startribune.comOfficer Bryan Platz <br />demonstrated the way to hold your hands during a class for a group of teachers at Coon Rapids High School <br />on Thursday, February 11, 2016, in Coon Rapids, Minn. ] RENEE JONES SCHNEIDER • <br />reneejones@startribune.com <br />Text size <br />Coon Rapids police officer Bryan Platz rattles off a list of reasons that bystanders give for watching a <br />person die of sudden cardiac arrest. <br />They figured help was on the way. They didn't know what to do. They'd forgotten their training. They <br />were too scared to act. <br />