Officer Returns To The Force After Being Hit, Dragged By Vehicle

[Anthony]

The Denver police officer who was hit and dragged by a vehicle during a student protest is returning to work today.

Nearly twenty-one months after being run over by a car and dragged, Officer John Adsit is returning to work.

Officer Adsit was hit in December 2014 while he was on a bicycle protecting students on a protest march.

Adsit, a nine-year-veteran of the police department needed more than a dozen surgeries.

"It's been an incredibly long journey," said Adsit. "There were ups and downs along the way, and I wasn't sure if this day would actually come. And doctors told me this day may never come. I'm blessed, I'm blessed."

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