Posted on 06/21/2015 3:34:11 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A Philly police officer was captured on camera helping two girls struggling to transport their laundry down a city street Wednesday.
PHILADELPHIA - A small act of kindness can go a long way. A video of a Philadelphia police officer lending a helping hand is sweeping the internet and it caught one woman's attention.
Bernice Daniels was driving to her sister's house in North Philadelphia on Sunday when she saw a police officer do something she considers pretty special. "It made me sit here and actually cry," Bernice told FOX 29.
She was coming down 21st Street when she saw the officer pulling over to help two children who were lugging their clothes to a laundromat on Diamond Street.
"They had hampers, not bags, not a push cart, but heavy hampers that they were carrying in their hands to go to that laundromat down the street," said explained.
Bernice was touched by what was unfolding before her eyes that she had her 9-year-old daughter, Bree, record the whole thing on her cell phone.
"Oh, he told the kids go ahead and walk and he's gonna drive the clothes to the laundromat. Tell me that's not a good deed," she said.
That's why Bernice decided-- a couple of days later--she had to post the video on Facebook.
"Every time I looked at it it brought tears to my eyes," she told FOX 29.
She wanted to recognize that officer. The officer is Sammy Brinson of the 22nd Police District on the force since 2007.
"You know what that officer had--that officer had a passion. He had a passion for children not just for work and doing his job but a passion for children," Bernice said.
Well over 100,000 people viewed the kind cop on Facebook. Thousands shared it, including Marc Gamble who saw the post this morning. He thanked Bernice for spreading the good word.
"I saw it and I said this is a wonderful thing. Never seen nothing like that that was so great, that was so great. I wish I'd seen that cop to shake his hand," he explained.
"That moment was a special moment and I am so thankful I was able to witness it," Bernice said. "He didn't have to do it, but he did it."
Officer Brinson was not available for comment today, but a police spokesperson tells FOX 29 it's all in a day's work and that these types of things happen all the time. It's all about police building relationships in the neighborhood and that most officers would do the same thing. Iain?
The encounter was captured on video by a nearby driver, Bernice Daniels, who then posted it to Facebook.
Daniels was in traffic at 21st and Diamond when she saw something she said brought tears to her eyes—the officer pull over after he saw two girls struggling with bags of laundry.
“My daughter was like ‘mom why are those kids trying to walk with all of those bags by themselves’,” Daniels explained via Facebook. She said she told her daughter they were struggling to the laundromat.
Then Brinson came to the rescue, putting the bags in his SUV and driving them to the laundromat, she told NBC10.
The officer “had a wonderful heart and helped these kids out,” Daniels said.
The video she posted to Facebook has been shared more than 6,000 times, including by the Philadelphia Police Department with this note:
“Here is some candid camera footage of 22nd District Officer Sammy Brinson doing what he does best - being a genuinely awesome guy!”
Obama won’t ever mention this it gets in the way of his cops are racist narrative.
I remember back in the ‘70s, as a kid, I fished at a place where cops regularly stopped to take breaks. It was anice, shady area on the St. Johns river in Jax, FL. Most of the time, I would stop to talk with the cops on my way out, walking home with tackle box, fish, pole, and usually a dog or two. On a lot of those days, the cop would give me a ride home in the cruiser. It used to scare and embarrass my much older, hippie sister that her 10 year old brother was coming home in a cop car...
Years ago, in the mid-80s through the 90s at least, Philadelphia sent all its top cops (commissioners, superintendents and chiefs) to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for seminars in Community Policing. Then-Commissioner Kevin Tucker instituted changes, carried forward by his successor Commissioner Willie Williams. They made serious efforts to build many small, accessible community-based offices for police as opposed to a few huge stations, and they hired cops of many ethnicities to try to break down resistance to police in heavily non-English-speaking areas like Chinatown or the Hispanic barrios on North 5th St. I don’t know the state of the PPD lately, but those programs did achieve significant gains back then.
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