Posted on 12/04/2014 9:09:55 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
When an off-duty officer from Texas visited an older woman during a well-being check, she never imagined they'd for a lasting friendship and that he'd be helping her shop for Thanksgiving groceries six-months later
Officer John Holder of the DeSoto Police Department helped 73-year-old Dorothy Shepard brave the Thanksgiving shopping crowds at a Walmart store in DeSoto and a shopper managed to snap a heartwarming photo of the unlikely pair.
The police department posted the photo on their Facebook page and over 700 people liked the photo and just days later they were interviewed by WFAA-8.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The unlikely friendship between a cop and a 73-year-old widow who he helped with the Thanksgiving shopping
Shouldn't that be "whom"?
Video and pictures at source.
Good story. Don’t know why they call it unlikely. Most cops have big hearts (yeah, I know the cop haters won’t believe that).
Well, it was written in England. Perhaps it would be unlikely over there.
“Shouldn’t that be “whom”?”
Probably not. Things have changed. Alexandra Klausner is a professional journalist and probably went to college to learn how to do it properly. s\
Why did I know, before looking, that he is white and she is black? The propaganda is sickening. Why is it shocking a white cop is a good guy?
The story is an example of actual racism by the writer(s).
Hoping to escape the stupidity of the morning news here I changed over to watch the BBC news and the first thing I saw was Cornell West rambling on about the genocide of blacks being hunted by white cops.
Could be. I wonder how the police and the public get along in the UK. I’m sure the Muslims don’t like the cops, but they don’t like anybody. ;-)
When will the complaints start rolling in about how he “drove her in his squad car” thus using tax-payer bought gas?
I say good job officer!
Actually, we don't "hate" cops and we DO believe that there are good cops with big hearts out there. We see stories like this quite a bit, and it's great! What we DON'T see enough of, however, are the good cops speaking out loudly and forcefully against the bad cops. Silence is consent and, despite the fact there are good and bad cops both, you'll very rarely find a good cop willing to speak up about his bad cop "brethren".
Now he’ll get into trouble using his squad car and being in uniform.
Where’s her family in all of this?
Can tell with the picture quality but is he wearing a bullet proof vest?
I don’t understand the necessity of anyone speaking out in the case of a bad cop. The justice system should take care of bad cops. Why is it that when someone does something wrong, everyone who is in the same group or occupation has to speak out about it? What good does that do?
This emotional age we live in drives me nuts. Reason and action are much more important in solving problems than words, demonstrations, ribbons, feelings, public apologies, etc. Guess I’m just a curmudgeon who doesn’t fit in.
“Where’s her family in all of this?”
Some people have no family; why would you even ask this?
Someone does an act of kindness and people want to find something bad in it.
It really is insane.
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