Posted on 11/30/2012 2:50:40 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
One tourist's photograph, among the countless snapped every day in the Big Apple, has gone viral. The moment captured is one of generosity, and since it was posted on Tuesday, it has circled the globe and brought a lot of attention to one young New York City cop.
Had it not been for a tourist from Arizona who snapped the photo with her cell phone, Officer Lawrence DePrimo's act of kindness, giving boots to a homeless man, may have gone unnoticed. Tourist Jennifer Foster emailed the photo to the NYPD and they posted it to their Facebook page. Tens of thousands of comments followed.
DePrimo says he had no idea it was going to be such a big deal. The 25-year-old officer was on patrol in Times Square on a cold night two weeks ago when he saw the homeless man with bare feet. He says, "You could see the blisters were about the size of my hands. My heart just went out to this man. I didn't think anything of it. I just went towards him, asked him if he wanted a pair of socks. He said no, but thanks and God bless you for asking. And that I found amazing. Here he didn't even have a pair of socks tohis name and he had the heart to say God bless me. It was absolutely, it was just inspiring."
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Anyone else remember how homelessness was a big deal when Republicans were in the White House?
NYPD PR?
On the NYPD FB page?
Good on the cop. I hope the homeless guy can keep his new boots from getting stolen.
My young son last year did a thing with church where they made up brown bags with a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich, a banana, cookie and bottle of water. Then went downtown in a group to pass them out to homeless people they came across.
My son related (with tears in his eyes) how he offered a bag to a very old bag lady, and she politely refused. My son offered it again, and she explained that she couldn’t eat it all right then, and that someone would rob her for the left-overs. So they made a deal and he gave her half a sandwich and the cookie!
Yea, and afterwards, the cop went back and took the boots and socks away from the guy and returned them to the store. It was all a staged PR stunt..........
I guess he’ll never be able to play the “bad cop”
A group in Amsterdam a few years ago, on very cold nights handed out pairs of thick cotton socks with hot baked potatoes in them to homeless people. The idea was that the insulated potatoes would help keep people warm over the night and in the morning there would be breakfast and clean socks.
“God bless this cop”
That’s what I would say, too. But I’ll bet under obama’s thinking, this cop would lose his job because it’s not fair that only one homeless person was helped by this cop. How fair is it that only one homeless person should be helped?
Please tell me you’re joking.
Has the world really gone down the tubes this bad that deeds like this are newsworthy? Really? Kudos to the cop nevertheless.
” [Hold on...we have HOMELESSNESS under Obama?”
It’s not obamas fault. That homeless guy is a holdover from the bush years.
This story was incredible. What a great cop they have in New York City. Being only 25, at least we have some youth we can count on to continue our great country on the right track after most of on here are gone. We need about 300 million more of them though.
He probably is joking about taking the boots back.
It probably was a PR stunt.
The homeless guy probably traded the boots for a fifth of booze within a few hours.
Can’t it be just a great story. You have to have a conspiracy about everything. I don’t believe it was a PR story at all. It was absolutely a great Christmas story. I suppose you find some of what Jesus did suspect? Turning 2 fish and 4 loafs into an amount to feed an entire group? Someone there also wrote about that....problem with that?
You want to quote for me where it says the tourist was a cop?
im joking.....sheesh
Hey folks, maybe the story is true, maybe its not a PR stunt. Maybe just maybe the cop is a good guy. Believe it, there are thousands upon thousands of good deeds done every day by people who are never recognized by the media. I choose to believe this police officer is one of NY’s finest.
"I have been in law enforcement for 17 years. I was never so impressed in my life. I did not get the officer's name," Foster wrote. "It is important, I think, for all of us to remember the real reason we are in this line of work. The reminder this officer gave to our profession in his presentation of human kindness has not been lost on myself or any of the Arizona law enforcement officials with whom this story has been shared."
Foster is the tourist.
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