Cop who caught starving mother stealing eggs gives her two truckloads of food to feed her family

UK Daily Mail ^ | December 12, 2014 | James Nye

[C19fan]

The compassion shown by Officer William Stacy to desperate Alabama mother Helen Johnson captured the nation's attention at a time of strained relations between the police and black Americans. Instead of arresting her for stealing five eggs to feed her starving family on Saturday, Stacy bought the carton and the touching hug they shared afterwards caught on video by a stunned passer-by went viral. But it got even better on Wednesday when Officer Stacy and some colleagues arrived at 47-year-old Johnson's home with two truckloads of food to keep her and her children and grandchildren fed through Christmas.

[sheana]

I give charity once a month when taxes are held out of our retirement checks.

[KoRn]

Need more, MANY MORE, police officers like this!

Great job!

(interesting that we hear of this from foreign press)

[sheana]

Officers also set up a fund at People’s First Federal Credit Union in Tarrant with all the money pouring in destined to be handed to the Johnson family.

And she’ll have to claim all that money to social services and they’ll cut off her welfare check. lol No good deed goes unpunished.

[bgill]

The clorox jumped out at me, too. And what about the stove pulled out so the baby could craw back behind it and play with the plug? Where are her daughters who are the mothers to the kids? Why aren't they working? How about the mothers of her nieces? There is more than one welfare check coming into the house. Especially during the holidays, charities and food pantries are giving away tons of food, clothing and toys. I used to work for DHS so know exactly how much is coming into these homes and it's a lot more than comes into my home. My DHS secretary quit after she became so disgusted that these people were raking in more than her paycheck she had to work for. The clients would come in complaining they didn't get their check so can't feed their kids all the while puffing cigarettes, laughing about partying at the bar the night before and admiring their new tats, bling and fake fingernails.

What store sells individual eggs?

Interesting how these white cop does good for poor black woman stories are pouring out these days. Sure, nice and all that but where are the black cop does good for poor white family stories?

[bgill]

Wonder why this officer had been to the house previously and how many other times different officers were called out to the house.

[driftless2]

Not ever having been on welfare, I don't know all the procedures. But I would bet welfare checks get lost on a regular basis. Which is why many states went to electronic transfers. In any event, I would guess the welfare recipient would get on the phone an contact a case worker if the check didn't arrive.

Honestly, if you, like millions of Americans, depended on welfare to feed your family, would you not contact the welfare office if your check didn't arrive? You certainly wouldn't let your family go without food. And where are her extended family members and friends? And I thought most welfare was now electronically transmitted. EBT cards and all that.

[USS Alaska]

If you read the article her monthly welfare check was lost in the mail so she was out of money to buy food.

In an effort to cut spending, federal officials began retiring paper checks in favor of direct deposits and prepaid "Direct Express" debit cards in May 2011. Since then, the Treasury Department has required all new recipients of payments from federal benefits programs -- including Social Security, Supplemental Security Income disability, Veterans Affairs and government pension plans -- to sign up for electronic payments. It set a March 1, 2013, deadline for all other recipients to do the same.

Is a welfare "check" paper or electronic, since I never got one {I just pay for them} I really don't know.

[angcat]

It’s an EBT card in PA. Unless each state is different I can’t imagine a welfare check coming in the mail anymore these days.

[driftless2]

As I'm posting on this thread and listening to Rush, an ad about starving Americans comes on. The ad claims one in five or six Americans go without food. Bulls..t!!! More like maybe one in one thousand or one in ten thousand.

There are constant food drives and requests to feed "starving" Americans. If any American is going hungry, it's because they're either little kids whose parents are deliberately abusing them, or they're too stupid to know where to get free food.

[nascarnation]

There’s one running here locally that there are 300,000 children in “food insecure” families.

Back in Cleveland, the old folks called that “boolsheet”.

[Night Hides Not]

Yep, another manifestation of white guilt.

[drypowder]

Hell, if she could make her way to Kalifornia, the liberal democrats who run that state would put her in a mansion for free, feed her and her family from now on and not only provide her transportation, they'll even provide a driver. All of that at no expense to her.

[cripplecreek]

I give charity once a month when taxes are held out of our retirement checks.

And that's how the fallacy of collective salvation works.

[AppyPappy]

She was starving because she placed her full financial trust in the government. The government is the only fiscal entity that can unilaterally decide to drop its support of you at any time.

After all, who are you going to complain to?

[angcat]

lol so true our welfare folks in PA live well and I don't know anyone who is starving.

[AppyPappy]

When I worked at the local food pantry, I found that most of the clients smoked.

You can afford $5 a day for smokes but not food?

[GeronL]

$5 a day nothing, its $6.30 a pack and twice daily for many of them

[AppyPappy]

In Virginia, it is about $5.

I paid $3 for a carton when I smoked.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yep. Fifty-Two places to get a meal in Dane County, alone. (WI)

http://www.cacscw.org/food-dcfpn.php

Wisconsin warehouses filled to the ROOF with foodstuffs:

http://www.foodpantries.org/st/wisconsin

NO ONE IS STARVING.

But, good on this cop, anyways. :)

[GeronL]

I have never seen a store selling individual eggs